Mourning Dove by Claire Fullerton – a guest post from TRSA

Reblogged from The Story Reading Ape’s blog:

Like a sailboat tacking obliquely through opaque mists with little to guide the course beyond hope and blind faith, my third novel,Mourning Dove, will be released at the end of June. It has been unequivocally the most roundabout way to publication I’ve ever heard of, and therefore I want to share my story. Let this serve as a case in point for keeping the faith on the road to publication.

To begin my story, I must digress.

Because I made no leeway as I shopped my first completed manuscript, with no joy from agents after nine months of querying, I decided to cease all effort and write another book I thought might be an easier sell. My thinking was if I could get one novel published, it would recommend the other.

The one I had completed was a first-person account of a single, American female who leaves the Los Angeles record business and moves to the west coast of Ireland without much of a plan. My working title for the book was The Spiddal Pier, and, as I searched the internet and bookstores for a general idea of what was being published, I parked The Spiddal Pier and focused on an idea for a book that was a little far-fetched, yet I liked the premise of the story because it happened to me.

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About Sue Vincent

Sue Vincent was a Yorkshire born writer, esoteric teacher and a Director of The Silent Eye. She was immersed in the Mysteries all her life. Sue maintained a popular blog and is co-author of The Mystical Hexagram with Dr G.M.Vasey. Sue lived in Buckinghamshire, having been stranded there due to an accident with a blindfold, a pin and a map. She had a lasting love-affair with the landscape of Albion, the hidden country of the heart. Sue passed into spirit at the end of March 2021.

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