WELCOME AUTHOR CHRISTINA LORENZEN

WELCOME AUTHOR CHRISTINA LORENZEN
7/28/2017 10:10:00 PM by: Patti Shene

FEATURED BOOK: Rapunzel's Lighthouse

AUTHOR: Christina Lorenzen

PUBLISHER: Forget Me Not Romances

GENRE: Sweet romance

SERIES OR STAND ALONE: stand alone

TARGET AGE: teen to adult

IT IS MY PLEASURE TO WELCOME AUTHOR CHRISTINA LORENZEN TO PATTI’S PORCH, CHRISTINA TALKS ABOUT THE STRONG INFLUENCE SHE BELIEVES READING PLAYS IN THE LIFE OF EVERY WRITER.

CHRISTINA IS OFFERING A GIVEAWAY! SIMPLY LEAVE A COMMENT BELOW TO ENTER THE DRAWING FOR A PRINT COPY (US) OR EBOOK COPY (INTERNATIONAL) OF RAPUNZEL’S LIGHTHOUSE.

Writing Stories That Bring Back Sweet Memories

Christina Lorenzen

I believe that all writers started out as readers. Myself, I can still remember trips to the public library in New York City with my mother as a child. My mom says she started bringing me before I could get a card, but the minute I could print my name (in front of the librarian no less) I got my first card. I was about four or five years old. It’s astonishing to me to think that I’ve had a library card for fifty years.

I have always been a voracious reader. I would come in with one stack of books to return and leave with a fresh new stack. When I say stack, I don’t mean five or six books. More like ten or fifteen. And believe it or not, I read every one of them by the time I brought them back. Yes, I was that kid who had her face stuck in a book pretty much every time you looked at her. So you’re not surprised when I tell you that I was the only one in junior high school excited about reading short stories and classic literature. English classes, creative writing classes, short story classes. These were the only places where things ‘clicked’ for me.

I had already decided when I was about ten years old that I was going to be a writer. By the time I was a senior in high school, I was writing freelance articles for a local paper one town over from where I lived. When I graduated high school in the early eighties, I took the path to a working life. Typical of most writers’ early lives, I had a series of interesting and diverse jobs. I was a telemarketer, waitress, dental assistant, secretary, bank teller and even a manicurist. But no matter what I did during the day, I was busy writing by night. And reading. I always had at least three books going at once.

Which brings me back to my theory. All writers started out as readers. I cannot imagine being one without being the other. Reading feeds a writer’s imagination. It incubates ideas. It teaches writers how to develop a character, describe a setting and capture a reader’s imagination. Best of all, writing allows readers to travel back to a sweeter time in life, where their fondest memories might have lain forgotten had it not been for a certain story jiggling it.

That is how Rapunzel’s Lighthouse came to be. No fairy tale or story brings back the flush of sweet memory like the classic tale, Rapunzel. It was, I think, one of the earliest contributors to my love of reading. My grandmother told me the story every night that she babysat me while my parents were out. No matter how many times she would ask ‘what story would you like me to tell you tonight?’ my answer was the same – Rapunzel. When my publisher put out a call for a collection of fairy tales with a modern day spin on them, my grandmother’s face came to me. She’s been gone so long I can’t remember every little detail. But her voice telling me the story of Rapunzel? Well, that I can hear in my head still. My grandmother was a true storyteller. She fostered a love of reading for me that remains a strong love even today. And I wish I could thank her for that gift. For the gift of a love for reading that continues to bless me all these years later.

Book Blurb for Rapunzel’s Lighthouse:

Georgie Daniels is self imprisoned in the cottage of the lighthouse that her father was keeper of before his death two years ago. She's hanging on to her home, despite the fact that the town has sent her a letter about unpaid taxes and the state of its disrepair. She rarely leaves the cottage except for trips into town for groceries. After losing her father and her fiance leaving her with a ring on her finger, the long haired woman prefers the company of her two cats, Keats and Kipling. Until retired Navy commander Colby Ford takes up residence in the Moore Cottage. The Moore cottage of all places, the very house the fiance who ran off and left her used to live. Just as she begins to 'let down her hair' with Colby, she finds out something that makes her determined to keep the cottage and lighthouse - no matter what the price is.

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Christina Lorenzen started writing as a young teen, jotting stories in wire ring composition notebooks. Her first typewriter made it faster to get all those stories out of her head.

Rapunzel’s Lighthouse is Christina’s sixth book. She is busy working on a summer 2017 release for Forget Me Not Romances. When she isn’t writing or reading, she can be found walking her dog, talking to her herd of cats and spending time with her family.

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Comments

Patti Shene From At 7/31/2017 10:28:42 AM

Hi Patty. When I was a kid, my uncle owned a store in town with a paperback book rack. We would go there on Sunday mornings after church, and while Mom sat at the counter drinking coffee & visiting, I hid behind the book rack and read dozens of westerns. Thank you for stopping by.

Patty Wiseman From Texas At 7/31/2017 9:46:16 AM

Loved this post. As a writer myself, I love to hear the stories about being an avid reader as a child. Me too! I think being a reader morphs into being writer for a lot of us. The book sounds intriguing!!