Do you ever wish you were someone else? This may sound a little egotistical, but no I don’t.
I have come to realize that everyone has their own problems, and wishing I were
someone I’m not isn’t going to make my life any better. I try to be thankful for what I have
and continue to strive to live a life I enjoy and I am proud of.
What did you do on your last birthday? I had the flu, so I spent the day curled up on my couch watching cheesy re-runs on tv with my cat. I had to cancel my plans with my family as I quarantined myself. I’m hoping for a better day this year!
Do you have any tattoos? Where? When did you get it/them? Where are they on your body? I don’t have any tattoos. Getting a tattoo scares me!
What are you working on right now? I am currently editing book two in the BANISHED Saga, RECLAIMED LOVE and writing book three, REDEEMED LOVE.
Is your
life anything like it was two years ago? My life now is busier than two years ago due to my writing and
publishing schedule. However, I still work the same full –time job as a family
nurse practitioner. In many ways, the main difference in my life is that I have
told everyone I am writing.
Book BLURB:
Free-Spirited…
Clarissa Sullivan dreams for more from life than sipping tepid tea
in stifling parlors in Victorian Boston. She defies her family’s wishes,
continuing to teach poor immigrant children in Boston’s West End, finding a
much-needed purpose to her life.
Radical…
As a suffragette, Clarissa is considered a firebrand radical no
man would desire. For why should women want the vote when men have sheltered
women from the distasteful aspects of politics and law?
Determined…
When love blossoms between Clarissa and Gabriel McLeod, a
struggling cabinetmaker, her family objects. Clarissa’s love and determination
will be tested as she faces class prejudices, manipulative family members and
social convention in order to live the life she desires with the man she loves.
Will she succeed? Or will she yield to expectations?
BANISHED LOVE follows Clarissa Sullivan on her journey of
self-discovery as she learns what she cannot live without.
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EXCERPT:
“You’ve known my beliefs for some time,” I croaked
out.
“A schoolgirl’s idealism,” she snapped. “Nothing to
be acted on.”
Mrs. Chickering cleared her throat, as though to
remind Mrs. Smythe she remained present. “I think it takes a tremendous
strength of character to have beliefs and then actually act on them,” she said
with her own fervor. “I would hate for women to lock away their desires for a
better world once they leave school or marry. They, as women, have lives, have
hopes and dreams for the future, independent of what a man might want.”
“How dare you come into my house and tell me that
what I have is not sufficient?” Mrs. Smythe gasped.
“I am saying no such thing, Mrs. Sullivan,” Mrs.
Chickering replied. “I believe you need to understand that your stepdaughter
has beliefs and aspirations that are different from yours.”
“Aspirations that include the vote?” Mrs. Smythe
scoffed. “Men have voted in the past, they will continue to vote, and I have no
desire of it. I feel as my husband does on all things to do with politics, so
it would only be giving the same politician two votes rather than one. There’s
no purpose to women having the vote.” Her eyes flashed, true enmity in their
depths as she glared at Mrs. Chickering. “And didn’t we women of Massachusetts
show you suffragettes we didn’t want the vote in’95? No one voted for women to
become enfranchised then, and they won’t now.” She sighed loudly, as though
trying to calm herself.
“An aspiration for independence?” Mrs. Smythe
continued, unable to stop speaking. “Are you telling me that someday it should
be lauded, hoped for, that young women become independent and have no need for
marriage? No need for children? How could that ever be a hoped-for future? You
and your group want too much for women. Women should focus on their home, on
creating a moral, upstanding environment in which to raise children. She will
want for nothing if she has such a home,” Mrs. Smythe argued.
“So I suppose women should remain tied to the
kitchen stove with children at their ankles, and a husband who might, or might
not, come home with a paycheck as their only recourse?” Mrs. Chickering
countered. “Relying on the benevolence of men to write laws and enforce them
without women having any involvement in the legislative process? Sitting at
home knitting, hoping that men will ensure that our rights are protected? That
is all you envision for women? Nothing more?”
“It has been enough for generations. I do not know
why it should need to change now,” Mrs. Smythe snapped, banging down her teacup
with such force I thought she might crack it.
“Was that enough for you in your first marriage,
Mrs. Sullivan?” Mrs. Chickering asked, pinning her with an intense gaze.
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AUTHOR Bio and
Links:
Ramona
Flightner is a native of Missoula, Montana. After graduating from Tufts
University with a B.A. in Spanish, she earned a Masters degree in Spanish
Literature from the University of Montana. Her Master’s thesis, Chilean
Testimonial Literature: the collective suffering of a people, highlighted her
continued interest in the stories of those who were at risk of being forgotten
or silenced.
She
studied nursing at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated with a Master’s
in Nursing as a Family Nurse Practitioner. She has worked for ten years as a
family nurse practitioner providing care to the poor and under insured at two
community health centers, first in Wilmington, Delaware and now in Boston,
Massachusetts.
An
avid reader, she began writing three years ago. She enjoys the demands of
research and relishes the small discoveries that give historical detail to her
books.
Ramona
is an avid flyfisher and hiker who enjoys nothing better than spending a day on
a remote Montana river, far from a city. She enjoys research, travel,
storytelling, learning about new cultures and discovering new ways of looking
at the world. Though she resides in Boston, Massachusetts, Ramona remains a
Montanan at heart.
Her
dreams are to see the plains of East Africa, marvel at the wonder of Petra in
Jordan, soak in the seas of the South Pacific, and to continue to spend as much
time as possible with her family.
Banished Love is her first novel and is
the first in the forthcoming Banished Saga.
AUTHOR
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