A Special Day is one of a series of topic-based stories I did for the US market. The brief was to write a story about a child who played in a mariachi band. I had no idea what a mariachi band was, and even when I found out there was the little problem that children don't play in them. Still, it was fiction, so I sorted that out fairly quickly. Writing a story set in a culture of which I know little is possible if the story is short and for a young audience. In this case I found it interesting because the research was fun. Mariachi, in case you don;t know either, is a Mexican tradition.
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Sally is Sally Odgers; author, manuscript assessor, editor, anthologist and reader. She runs http://www.affordablemanuscriptassessments.com and Prints Charming Books. (Sally is me, by the way, and I am lots of other things too, but these are the relevant ones for now.)
The goal for 2017 is to write a post a day profiling the background behind one of my books; how it came to be written, what it's about, and any things of note that happened along the way. If you're an author, an aspiring author, a reader or just someone who enjoys windows into worlds, you might find this fun. The books are not in any special order, but will be assigned approximate dates, and pictures, where they exist. If you enjoyed a post, or want to ask about any of my books or my manuscript assessment service, leave me a message.
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