Celia Hayes
06-13-2009, 03:23 PM
Hullo - my name is Celia Hayes and I'm a writer.....
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I write historical novels, set on the 19th century American frontier, which if you bend down and squint at them sideways in a certain way, may be called Westerns ... although the gunplay in all of them is at an absolute minimum (especially in my first, To Truckee's Trail (http://www.amazon.com/Truckees-Trail-Celia-D-Hayes/dp/1601452527/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244906162&sr=1-1), which was about the first wagon train party to take wagons over the Sierra Nevada, and they got caught in the snow but didn't starve like the Donner Party... oops, got sidetracked there) and I do write heaps about the women's experience and point of view. Still, about 3/4th of my mad fans are men. My current project started as a single novel about the German settlements in frontier-era Texas, which eventually sprouted into a trilogy (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=adelsverein+trilogy&x=16&y=16), because there just was so darned much interesting material there, which no one had put into fiction since James Michener wrote Texas.
I also helped found the Independent Authors Guild (http://www.independentauthorsguild.com/), and I do reviews for Blogger News Network and for PODBRAM (http://podbram.blogspot.com/), I am an editor at The Deepening (http://www.thedeepening.com/world-of-fiction/)... and in between all that, I try and have some kind of time to work on my next book...
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I write historical novels, set on the 19th century American frontier, which if you bend down and squint at them sideways in a certain way, may be called Westerns ... although the gunplay in all of them is at an absolute minimum (especially in my first, To Truckee's Trail (http://www.amazon.com/Truckees-Trail-Celia-D-Hayes/dp/1601452527/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244906162&sr=1-1), which was about the first wagon train party to take wagons over the Sierra Nevada, and they got caught in the snow but didn't starve like the Donner Party... oops, got sidetracked there) and I do write heaps about the women's experience and point of view. Still, about 3/4th of my mad fans are men. My current project started as a single novel about the German settlements in frontier-era Texas, which eventually sprouted into a trilogy (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=adelsverein+trilogy&x=16&y=16), because there just was so darned much interesting material there, which no one had put into fiction since James Michener wrote Texas.
I also helped found the Independent Authors Guild (http://www.independentauthorsguild.com/), and I do reviews for Blogger News Network and for PODBRAM (http://podbram.blogspot.com/), I am an editor at The Deepening (http://www.thedeepening.com/world-of-fiction/)... and in between all that, I try and have some kind of time to work on my next book...