Calling all Authors, probably female authors!

[peteanddelmar]

Ok. My Grandma was born on Grand Tower Island, Missouri IN the Mississippi river.
She then traveled by wagon across Missouri and into the new state of Oklahoma.

She must have been wistfull and love-torn because she didn't get married till age 30....I think. LOL
She saw a lot, having been raised in a haven of river pirates. (Grand Tower, Illinois) Where the Spanish and US kept kicking the pirates across the river. At an earlier date.
Her mom was a River rat and grew up in a North Missouri river town and islands.

I think they went after land in Oklahoma.

Things were tough!

But you got ST. Louis if you need a city for her to dress up in and go to a ball!! Or whatever!

She met my hard rock miner grandpa and fell in love and had a bunch of kids!
But you could re-arrange that if necessary...stall on the kids if necessary.

A woman's POV might be vital. Why was her mother 100 miles downstream on ANOTHER island from her own stomping grounds when GG (Grandma Grace ILand Broyles) was born?

Did she wait to get married because she wanted a kind hearted man who did dishes? LOL (My Papa)

All the ladies here have broadened my view of history by chasing down the women's stories.

So re-arrange this into a "he loves me but I don't love him because he's a river pirate" torment...where true love is eventually found!

It might even have a germ of truth!

 

[FarawayFriend]

Best of luck with this. We have some very gifted female authors here, I think you will find someone and be most pleased with the result. A great plot, anyway!

 

[peteanddelmar]

Best of luck with this. We have some very gifted female authors here, I think you will find someone and be most pleased with the result. A great plot, anyway!

Well, it's an idea starter at least. 2 generations of River Rats. Flatboats down the Mississippi. Stopping in St Louis to window shop. IDK...

 

[JaneQuantrill]

Ok. My Grandma was born on Grand Tower Island, Missouri IN the Mississippi river.
She then traveled by wagon across Missouri and into the new state of Oklahoma.

She must have been wistfull and love-torn because she didn't get married till age 30....I think. LOL
She saw a lot, having been raised in a haven of river pirates. (Grand Tower, Illinois) Where the Spanish and US kept kicking the pirates across the river. At an earlier date.
Her mom was a River rat and grew up in a North Missouri river town and islands.

I think they went after land in Oklahoma.

Things were tough!

But you got ST. Louis if you need a city for her to dress up in and go to a ball!! Or whatever!

She met my hard rock miner grandpa and fell in love and had a bunch of kids!
But you could re-arrange that if necessary...stall on the kids if necessary.

A woman's POV might be vital. Why was her mother 100 miles downstream on ANOTHER island from her own stomping grounds when GG (Grandma Grace ILand Broyles) was born?

Did she wait to get married because she wanted a kind hearted man who did dishes? LOL (My Papa)

All the ladies here have broadened my view of history by chasing down the women's stories.

So re-arrange this into a "he loves me but I don't love him because he's a river pirate" torment...where true love is eventually found!

It might even have a germ of truth!

Sounds like an excellent story! I shall put the word out about it. I have just had my own Civil War book published, 'Partners in Time'. Now, I spend every waking hour promoting it; that's the hardest part! I swear, it's sending me insane!

 

[peteanddelmar]

Sounds like an excellent story! I shall put the word out about it. I have just had my own Civil War book published, 'Partners in Time'. Now, I spend every waking hour promoting it; that's the hardest part! I swear, it's sending me insane!

Where can I go online to find info on your book? I'm curious.

 

[unicornforge]

Where can I go online to find info on your book? I'm curious.

Here ya go Pete: http://www.amazon.com/dp/192521978X/?tag=civilwartalkc-20

 

[rosefiend]

Too many books in the queue, Pete -- if I could ever get them published.

What kind of research have you done on her? I don't know what you might find in your county history books (Goodspeed did a bunch of county histories in the 1880's) or at your grandma's house. Start looking stuff up, starting at home, and start pulling together clues. I've had good luck with getting stories, pics, etc. from cousins, aunts, uncles. You might see who your family genealogist is and start crawling through the branches of your family tree. Some family branches are better than others, but sometimes you can find some good stuff in the most unexpected places. (I've had especially good luck finding pictures in sewing boxes, for some reason.)

 

[JaneQuantrill]

Where can I go online to find info on your book? I'm curious.

Hi there. You can check out my book at: amazon.com/author/janequantrill