Author: Carolyn Lampman
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BLOG# 4 THE HEROINE AND SUPPORTING CAST
This chapter was important because it is where I began to build Kate’s character. I needed to show a contrast between the practical down-to-earth Kate the world saw and the beautiful sexy woman who lurked within. Most heroines are lovely, lithe creatures that retain their beauty through nasty weather, run-ins with bad guys, and every […]
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Saloons
BLOG #3 SALOONS This is one of those places where I tapped into my experience to help me get the setting “right”. I needed a saloon, and that saloon needed a name. When I was growing up, my hometown had four bars, The Silver Spur, The Branding Iron, The Smokehouse and The Hanging Tree. While […]
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Horse Creek
Blog # 2 I have been asked many times if Horse Creek, Wyoming is a real place. There is a tiny town in the southern part of the state named Horse Creek, and there are at least a dozen creeks of varying sizes all over Wyoming with the name. However, my Horse Creek is fictitious. […]
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Murphy’s Rainbow Blogs
Blog # 1 Bryan Murphy When I set out to write Murphy’s Rainbow, my first problem was how to get Kate to the middle of Wyoming. The obvious answer, to me anyway, was the Oregon Trail. So Kate and Bryan Murphy were on their way to start a new life in Oregon on what was […]
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The Cheyenne Trilogy Book Blogs
To mark the re-release of my first three books I have decided to do a weekly book blog featuring them. I will start with an overview of the whole series then jump into Murphy’s Rainbow. I’m planning to do about twenty blogs for the first book then move on to the next. I eventually hope […]
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My Grandmother’s Bookcase
I have very few memories of my Grandma Lampman—she died when I was five—but she had a profound effect on me as a writer. One of the things she left behind was a bookcase filled with books. It wasn’t large as bookcases go, I have at least three of my own that are larger, but […]
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Once Upon a Midnight Waking
People often ask where my book ideas come from. The truth is every book is different. WINTER HAWK began with a single scene. It woke me up in the middle of the night fully formed, very much as you see it below. I have had other ideas come from dreams but never one so completely […]
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Wild Honey: Book Three of the Meadowlark Trilogy
Ever since I started writing seriously in 1987, I have written my way through everything life has thrown at me including the deaths of three parents and multiple friends, the birth of a child, four major surgeries, and two trying bosses. Out of all that, only one trauma was so great it took an entire […]
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Silver Springs: Book two of the Meadowlark trilogy
Our guest blogger this week is once again Angel Brady. Her topic is Silver Springs, the second book in the Meadowlark Trilogy and her own personal story. As usual, Angel has a unique perspective, and she sees the creation of this book somewhat differently than I do. Without further ado, I give you Angel. I […]
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MEADOWLARK 2.5
One of the quirkiest things about MEADOWLARK is the title itself. I called it Buckboard Bride originally. One of the first things Swede gives Becky is a buckboard; much like a man buying his bride a car, so she can get around. It was, and still is, one of the most consistent story elements throughout […]
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