Rose, the survivor of her family's carnage!

Continuing along with popular posts from
The House on Blackstone Moor, as part of the virtual book tour, today the heroine, Rose Baines!

A fragile flower so aptly named Rose…the lone survivor of her family’s carnage and her father’s unspeakable sin…



A madhouse next, after which she will find her way to a lonely house on desolate moors—moors that tell of a terrifying legend, a legend of evil...

Yet love will come to her, deep, passionate—and irrefutable, too powerful to deny.


But as she will be told by a gypsy, that love has at its core poison not sweetness!


Will she heed the warning, would you? Would I?


I know my answer but that is because I have written this novel in the first person.


It wasn’t always easy as I came from a very happy home with absolutely no carnage or madhouse either!


Yet I suppose I was able to write of Rose’s suffering based on various and sundry suffering I have lived thorugh. And I have! We all do to varying extents.


In my writing, I act the part; I live the part while I write. This I do because I studied acting for a short time and learned the Method. The Method teaches students to draw upon their own experiences in order to feel a particular emotion.


That works for me, although having said that my short stories tend to be written in the third person. It can work for a third person story in a way, but it isn’t of course as dramatic (or as much fun)!


When I began it the question I asked myself was:


IF—IF I CAME HOME AND FOUND MY ENTIRE FAMILY HAD BEEN MURDERED BY A LUNATIC FATHER…


I took it from there and since I knew (from the music that inspired me, see previous post) that this would turn into a story with supernatural themes; I could take my first steps.


I’m glad I have, I feel I know the people and beings I have created and I am pleased. I hope you will be too!

One more thing!
If you should come upon a lonely house on a desolate moor do be careful!


Next week: The LEGEND of Blackstone Moor!