Author photo "What's In the Water?"
Work In Progress
Set in a small town in eastern New Mexico, where water and opportunity are as rare as a mermaid sighting, three sisters and two friends form a secret club and dream of the ocean. But betrayal and broken promises threaten to tear everyone apart, and friendships and family bonds are tested.
Chapter 1, Sister Friends, October 2017
♫ The lonely strains of a flute echo through the empty window frames of the abandoned church...
photo of Kathleen by Tom Rodgers
As I turn, my gaze drifts over the walls of graffiti... ♫
photo taken Sept. 2019
Abandoned Church
Painting by Debbie Carroll
The opening chapter takes place in this abandoned church in eastern New Mexico.
"I am always the daughter trying to write my way home."
The public library plays an important role in my WIP. I grew up climbing the steps to this building that once housed the US Post Office and later the Clovis-Carver Public Library. A church meets here now, but the building lives on as a library in my WIP.