From Chapter 3- Buds erupt on limbs and signal that spring is near, but wait until April in Truckee. If you live high in the Sierra, as the Edwards children did in 1910, the Truckee River in mid-April flows swiftly, boiling and bubbling among granite rocks, filling its bed with freezing snow melt. No wonder the Edwards children couldn’t resist an adventure with their horse, Molly, through the blooming meadow by the river. “When Tiny and Raleigh reached the bank on the upriv

I believe that most authors read all the time. Then, if I read a phrase that intrigues me, I keep it in a folder. When I was writing The House on Harrigan’s Hill I would sometimes adapt a phrase to get the sentence I want. This is true also for the style of the narrative. The House on Harrigan’s Hill may puzzle some readers. It may not suit to read the story from the third person point of view and then have the narrator step forth in first person to insert a chapter of refle