by graphixchix | Nov 7, 2022
Let’s continue to celebrate Native American Heritage month. If you have read “Porch Music” you know that the story tells of a Seminole doll named Bettie. Betty is my mom’s name, and the book is dedicated to her, but here is another reason I...
by graphixchix | Nov 2, 2022
Creating a fictional antagonist can be a lot of fun, a bad man or woman who terrorizes others in the story. In real life as well as novels, villains are often “hurt people” who hurt other people. Because PORCH MUSIC has so many women characters, I wanted one of the...
by graphixchix | Nov 1, 2022
It’s Tidbit Tuesday and the first day of Native American Heritage Month. Although Porch Music is fiction, it contains some of my mother’s memories through the eyes of Janie. Our family’s Native American heritage and preserving my own memories of...
by graphixchix | Oct 25, 2022
Porch music happens all over the world, even in the Swiss Alps, atop Mount Pilatus. Have you seen this musical instrument before? Yes, on television if not in person. What comes to mind?
by graphixchix | Oct 25, 2022
If you could sit on the porch with anyone today, whom would you choose? For now, I will sit with Ma. You can meet her in the pages of Porch Music.
by graphixchix | Oct 25, 2022
How about I share a “song” I wrote for Porch Music? The prologue sets the stage for the rural setting, the early 1950s, and the music that was popular at the time. We learn quite a bit from the narrator, Janie, about her family and the way she sees the...
