What inspires my writing?
Sometimes, my memory–and my diary, which I kept from the time I was 17.
I dated this slightly older, very handsome, and much taller man when I was 18. He was a cowboy/football coach, and the nicest man in the world. (I hadn’t met Charley yet.)
He was the inspiration for the Kansas cowboy Monty Blackhorse in The Island House.
Once upon a time, in a land far far away, I had a horse. This old photo of me with my horse one winter long ago helped me create Courtney, the Kansas girl who loves a cowboy.
Courtney comes to Nantucket, just as I did, and. . .well, she finds all kinds of love.
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