When the Main Character Morphs into Something Else ...

 

Delighted to be included on Assaph Mehr's excellent blog, The Protagonist Speaks. It's a clever idea. Authors are given free rein to expand on the thoughts, feelings and perceptions of their main character, in the first person. 

In this instance, I morphed into Anna Di Angelo, as an 80-year old woman looking back over the incidences in her life. Anna's story is key to the entire evolution of TRILLIUM, even though, in the story, she is not given much of a voice. Deemed 'slow' at birth, she was sheltered by her Italian-Canadian family. She was never taught to read or write as there seemed no need. But, as we learn in the following 'interview', Anna has always had a mind of her own ...

Assaph sets it up beautifully ... Dear readers, tonight with us is a matriarch of a wine-making family from Canada. She is here to tell us about the 250-year history of three families... 

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It is also a thrill to be included in my university's on-line 'Coffee House 2020', a 'coffee house' tradition that spans decades at the school. 

Here, I supplied a 'test read' by the narrator of TRILLIUM, Jens Hansen.  Unfortunately, the audiobook that we've worked on so hard over the spring and summer has been 'locked' in 'Quality Assurance' at the distributors since mid August. Apparently, the backlog at ACX,/Audible is unbelievable ... That's totally understandable given the global COVID circumstances, but terribly disappointing that there we still have no tangible audiobook to share with you. 

Thus, at present, there is no opportunity for you to hear the continuation of Jen's brilliant 'start' of TRILLIUM* ... Listen to his little audio teaser on Facebook or Instagram.

 

 

*(Ebook, Paperback and AUDIOBOOK now available) 

Also, the audiobook is on iTunes.