March 20, 2923
Tell us about the day in the life of one of your characters.
After a restless night, my morning routine soothed my frazzled nerves. Start the coffee pot, shower, towel dry my hair, slip into a comfortable pair of jeans and a random blouse from the closet, pour myself a cup of coffee, one sugar, no cream, run downstairs to grab the newspaper, and sit on the bottom step to glance through it. That was my summer routine anyway. I didn’t sit outside in the winter naturally. The local paper, The Herald, tried hard to cover local news, but not much happens in Oak Grove anymore. I’d been in it too much.
Piper came to greet me, sticking his nose through the chain-link face. Most days, I brought a doggy-biscuit with me, but he doesn’t care on the rare days I forgot. He was happy to have me scratch the top of his head. Some days I swear he purred when I got it just right.
I sipped the coffee and watched the sun rise.
The Marquesa’s Necklace
Harmony Duprie lives a quiet, routine life and likes it that way. Monday through Friday, she goes to work at the library, helping patrons, comes home, and reads. (She’s a research librarian, with a specialty in Victorian-era history.) Wednesdays nights, she goes out with her friends for supper and a few drinks. Thursday is her day to go grocery shopping, Saturday is her day to deep clean her little apartment, on the third floor of a Victorian-era home, and prep her meals for the next week. (She is somewhat of a neat freak.) Sunday is her day to relax, perhaps help her landlords in their garden, or go for a long car ride to nowhere in particular.
She dates occasionally, but the pool of bachelors in the small town of Oak Grove is pretty slim and she hasn’t found anyone that makes her heart flutter as much as finding a rare book in one of the town’s pawnshops does.
All of that changes when Jake Hennessey wanders into her life and she ends up getting charged for trafficking drugs.
That’s a day in the life of Harmony Duprie. To find out more, go here: https://www.pjmaclayne.com/?page_id=232 To get more days in the life of. . . from other authors, just follow the links below.
As always, until next time, please stay safe.
March 20, 2923
Tell us about the day in the life of one of your characters.
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I enjoyed The Marquesa’s Necklace, I must catch up on the rest of the series.
I’m currently reading “The Rocks of Aserol” and enjoying it.
That’s a bit of a change from working in a library to trafficking drugs! I expect love comes into the equation somewhere?
Yes, romance is a subplot that takes the whole series to resolve!
A lovely quiet life until a major interruption walks in. Tweeted.
Life has a way of keeping us on our toes, doesn’t it?
Sounds like a really intriguing character. @samanthabwriter from
Balancing Act
She was a really fun character to write.