Cindy Bradford
Every so often I get an email from someone who really makes my day, and that happened to me on Saturday. A friend of mine from my University of Texas at Brownsville professor days who now lives in Tennessee has been so kind to read both books and comment on them. Continue Reading
Do you have questions for me about my writing, my books, my thoughts on life? Send them through the Contact form and I’ll answer them here. Has writer’s block ever affected you? If so, to what degree and how did you cope? I really don’t think so. Every now and then I simply can’t get [...]
Do you have questions for me about my writing, my books, my thoughts on life? Send them through the Contact form and I’ll answer them here. Cindy, can you give us an example of an idea you had for one of your novels, and how that inspiration led you to the story it ultimately became?
I hope all of you guys reading this had a wonderful Father’s Day. I remember when it was special for me to remember my dad with a gift and a hug, but this marks the twelfth year that he has been gone. More than anyone else in the world he influenced my writing through encouragement [...]
Mac, the lobsterman, was one such character. Keeping Faith may have been just fine without him, and you may not even remember him, but I thought he added another aspect of humanity.
How can anyone not adore Faith? So therefore, I’d like for her to stick around awhile longer, which is why she will join us in the third book
Settings are the easiest for me to describe in my books because I try to weave in places I have actually visited and studied. Using them in my writing allows me to mentally visit them again and again and relive my experiences.
Warning: If you haven’t finished reading Keeping Faith yet, this blog reveals an event later in the book that you might rather not know yet. In that case, stop right here, bookmark this blog and come back to it later.
Friends ask where I come up with all my ideas, (several of my more illustrious buddies have been more direct and asked where do I get all my BS) both for my books and my blogs. I have just smiled and ignored them, but you nice people deserve to know the facts.
That made me think about Alice in Keeping Faith. What a wonderfully rich example of a mother’s love. Alice actually put her life on hold to ensure that Faith was a happy, normal child.
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