Waiting for the rain

I'm looking very much forward to snuggling under this bright beauty, one of these days....

Anticipating machine piecing. And hopefully novel prepping.... 

Welp, I've done some novel-prepping, woo hoo! Home and Far Away now has end details and a chapter of the next book that one of these days I'll complete. Lol. But yeah, book stuff is happening! Synopses are next, insert winking emoji here.

Truthfully, how to describe this story? Kind of like describing the quilt design pictured above. Fave Anna Maria Parry (AMP) prints old and new with some additional fabrics for good measure. I can't write that as a synopsis, but it correlates, because Home and Far Away is nearly a separate tale from the previous three Enran Chronicles books, mostly about Richard and Gilly Lund adjusting to two humans from outer space and an actual alien arriving with them. Set in rural California in 1971. With overtones of racial disparity and other biases intruding. And it's a love story.

Clockwise from top left: new AMP, old AMP, old and beloved AMP swans, and a random tone on tone for a little square of quiet.

Can you imagine a synopsis to just tell it like it is? Please read the first three books if you want, or at least Book Three, or simply dive right in, you'll figure it out quickly. LOLOL! What if I did that, what if I just wrote a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants synopsis for one of my favourite books! What if....

Four fave AMP prints; oh those SWANS, be still my heart!

I'm not a I do this for a living author. I take my work seriously, but not myself. I write stories, refine them to the best of my ability, then release them for free to anyone who is interested. If I want to ditch the expected synopsisical BLAH BLAH BLAH, would anyone care? Would I be considered a hack? A hack, boy, that's a phrase. What if that quilt remains on the design wall for ages as though it never rained and I had way more interesting things to do than sit at my machine and put it together. Like writing a proper synopsis, HAH! How to boil down, without spoilers, the essence of a thirty-nine chapter novel that defies genres and all manners to shoehorn it into some acceptable box? BAH! That's not how I roll in my little fictional groove. I want to stretch boundaries, not merely those of space and time, but of hearts and souls. Of minds and considerations. Of love and peace and the crap human beings lay over those beauties providing the necessary drama any writer requires to get the action going!

Ahem.

When I do my stretches, I admire that quilt top and the groupings of old and new fabrics, of prints belonging to one artist and those of others, of colours and images and stillness. Could I put that in my wild synopsis, would that entice anyone to read this book that really doesn't have much to do with sewing, although Sooz uses Richard's grandmother's machine and there's an old quilt that Gilly loves, which she snuggles under with Suze. In the excerpts released, have you noticed that Sooz considers herself with the spelling of her name as SOOZ, while Richard, Gilly, Kevin, Lupe, and Matty think of her as SUZE. Chella and Dardram also think of Sooz as SOOZ, while Dominique uses SUZE, also seeing our protagonist beyond her skin colour. This is no typical time-travel romance or space-opera offering. This is a novel about human beings, even if two are from how many galaxies away, and one not even of our DNA.

More gorgeous swans, calmish tone on tone, amazing new AMP especially that blue and red flower, and subtle gray coneflowers that go with about everything; YES!

Yet, I can't put this blog entry as my synopsis because anyone half-interested would immediately move on. Or maybe I could. Perhaps this long-winded post suffices, for I haven't given away the ending, I haven't done more than stretch my writing muscles for the morning. I've proffered what this novel is about, quilt-talk aside, and isn't that the reason for a synopsis, to tell a potential reader: Okay, this book is about some humans from the far reaches of space who land on Earth and how they deal with it. One is black, one is white. And they bring with them an alien who in their world would have spent her existence in reproductive slavery. Written two years ago, it's pretty damn timely now, and it has a happy ending. That's the only spoiler I'll cop to, because happy endings MATTER, both in the past and the present. And the future of course, where the next Enran novel is set.

Might as well plug the series while I'm here.

Oh my goodness, this would make for a hilarious synopsis. Do I have the cojones, I don't know. If nothing else, I've gotten a lot of out of my system, lol. And yakked about a quilt I hope to sew, once the rain starts sometime tomorrow. It's supposed to be quite the storm, not sure what the chickens will make of it. Probably lots of coop time. Coop time for me is sewing, sitting at my computer, not cleaning my house. Writing a synopsis maybe, probably. Or merely copying and pasting this. I'll be sure to let you know, once I release Home and Far Away sometime next week, inserting ROFL emoji HERE!