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Children’s Fiction
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September 6, 2010
[...] Also, please read Lisa Rivero’s (my friend and colleague) middle grade historical novel, Planting Words: My Friend Oscar Micheaux. And, have [...]
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March 2, 2011
[...] the lovely Lisa Rivero (author of Planting Words: My Friend Oscar Micheaux) has featured an interview on her blog where I talk about how I find and make time to write. [...]
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May 18, 2011
[...] my novel. The other books I really want are the published versions of my friend’s manuscripts: Planting Words: My Friend Oscar Micheaux by Lisa Rivero, How to Date an Alien by Magan Vernon, Fatal Beauties by Renae Mercado, Pair of [...]
That’s a lovely read! How did you ever come up with the idea to make a rattlesnake bracelet? I never would have thought of something like that. This seems to be the kind of book I’d like to read. I love history.
Tessa, thank you! I don’t really know how I came up with that idea. I think it was a combination of having received a beautiful beaded purse from a Lakota aunt the year before I wrote the book, and remembering an incident from my childhood when my grandmother killed a rattlesnake in the yard with a shovel where I brother and I played. (She was a tough woman!).
This book was one of the first times where I felt a story take on its own life and themes as I wrote. it, and I completely understand now how one can get hooked on the feeling.
Reading this again, I confirm that this is a great excerpt from your novel! The snake still gives me shivers! Thank you for sharing, Lisa!
That sounds really interesting. The bit about the rattlesanke bracelet freaked me out a bit though.