Origin
Ethna's Secret: A Friendly Challenge
After completing a half marathon with a friend whom I had talked into training with me, she offered her own challenge: It was "National November Writer's Month" and I must now write a novel. All I needed to do was write 50,000 words in one month.
I wrote 150,000.
And so began my writing journey.
Ethna's Secret
Continued from above . . .
Ethna’s Secret was inspired by my first visit to the Hill of Tara in County Meath, Ireland. I had always wanted to visit the place of my namesake, and I was not disappointed. There was something magical about this otherwise unremarkable hill.
Standing there amidst the rolling green landscape, a sturdy wind enveloped me as a fine mist of rain sprinkled around me like fairy dust. My own visceral experience alone on that hill was the first scene I wrote. The story fell into place around it.
And boy did it fall. The words just kept coming until I realized I had a trilogy on my hands. Ethna’s Secret is the first book in a 3-part series full of family secrets, Irish legends, mystical weapons, Barbary corsairs, Spanish galleons, and characters I would follow to the ends of the earth.
Editors
To see this manuscript, please contact Cathie Hedrick-Armstrong at Marsal Lyon Literary Agency.