My guest today is Dr. Elisabeth Sharp McKetta, English professor at Harvard University in Boston
Elisabeth invited me to comment on my journey from traditional
publishers to self-publishing for her blog today: http://thetuesdaywriter.blogspot.com/ -- then she was kind enough to post some
encouraging words for my YA thriller, STALKED. Thank you Elisabeth! Her
review, which also appears on Amazon:
"When arriving at Ellis Island in 1911, all Rikke has are fifteen dollars and the sewing skills she has worked to learn. When the ocean wind blows her dollars overboard, Rikke finds herself dependent on the kindness of strangers and her real adventure begins...
"Through a combination of third person narrative and Rikke's letters to family and friends, we see an impeccably researched immigrant story of loyalty, love, and desperation unfold through Rikke's eyes: the friends she makes from a melting pot of nationalities, the job she finds working as a seamstress, the younger sister she adopts from negligent parents, the impact of the Titanic crash on the families in New York who were awaiting their loved ones on the ship, and Rikke's growing awareness that she is being stalked by her "chaperone" from the ship ride to America.
"Through these events, Rikke must learn to count on herself, her own skills and ingenuity, to survive and find her way back to her family. Indeed it is her very own craft, her sewing, that enables Rikke to pull herself up stitch by stitch and make a life for herself in early-century New York. From start to finish, Stalked is a well crafted and suspenseful story in which all of the threads are woven shimmeringly into place." www.amazon.com/Stalked-ebook/dp/B0069WE02W/
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