I’ve never been a girly girl. When I was little my idea of fun was crawling under our giant forsythia bushes with a knife from my mom’s kitchen drawer and sawing off boughs to peel and make my own bow and arrows for target shooting.
That’s more or less still how I roll.
Recently I was answering questions for an upcoming interview for the release of The Pursuit of Tamsen Littlejohn (April 15th), and ended up changing one of my answers. I liked the original answer so much I decided to squirrel it away (ahem), hoping to use it again sometime. Then I thought, why not share it on the blog?
So here it is. ๐Ÿ™‚

For a woman who is happy in her jeans and 90’s era flannel hoodie, I was surprised with this book to find myself writing about a character with a passion for clothing.

Charactersโ€”mine anywayโ€”often spring into being with personalities and interests that hold firm despite efforts to shape them. I gave up trying with Tamsen Littlejohn, embraced that “girlie” aspect of her character, and soon saw how I could use clothing to show the stages of Tamsenโ€™s growthโ€”her rejection of the cage she feels caught in, her shedding of her old life, her attempts at โ€œtrying onโ€ various aspects of frontier life, until we see her constructing a set of clothes unlike anything sheโ€™s ever imagined, for the sheer joy of creation.

Which, when it comes down to it, I can fully embrace and understand.

I hope you’ll grab a copy of The Pursuit of Tamsen Littlejohn come April 15, take this metaphorical (and all too harrowingly practical) journey with Tamsen, and enjoy meeting a character who is very much unlike her creator when it comes to clothing.

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ย I have something special planned to post on Saturday, March 15.
So watch this spot!

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