Being a writer has its perks. I get to create the stories I want to read. And I get to use all the names I’ve ever loved (or hated). Beyond my four children who bear the names most favoured by my husband and I, of course. But this is not the tale of the Hayes […]
et in Cape Town, South Africa, Seekers of the Lost Boy, as the first in the hoped for series is tentatively titled, is an adventure that brings a middle class white family with four home schooled children face-to-face with the atrocities of their apartheid past.
It begins when the eldest son (Simon, 12 years old) finds a bottle on the water’s edge during a visit to the beach on a wintery day. He brings the bottle home, dreaming of adventures, pirates and hidden treasures, only to have the bottle shatter just after he steps out of the car.
What got you thinking about writing stories? I’ve always enjoyed writing: creative stories in school, analytical essays at varsity, and, these days, blog posts of varying styles. Even though blogging has scratched the writing itch, I missed the creativity of making up stories. Why the Seekers series? While teaching high school and then my own […]