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My newsletter subscribers are getting the first look at my next cover today. Yay! I’m so excited and it’s so pretty, and eerie. It perfectly represents the scene in the book when everything changes for the heroine. My new cover has me thinking about different settings I read about and how the details surrounding place bring great fiction to life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether it’s Kristin Hannah<\/a>‘s 80s Alaska, Sarah MacLean<\/a>‘s historical London, or Lucy Maud Montgomery<\/a>‘s Green Gables, the setting of each has a deep impact on the characters. You are there with them, in a place you might never have visited, but you are experiencing the setting through the character’s eyes. While reading All The Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood<\/a>, I felt like I was there, in that dirty, revolting place in which the main character was forced to grow up in. Gosh, that sounds horrible, but it’s one of my favourite book club reads because it was all so real to me. Every little setting detail put me right there with the characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, as I start a new project, I’m busy learning about the setting of this new story. Another small fictional town set in southwestern Saskatchewan, based in the area known as the Cypress Hills<\/a>. GONE (release date coming soon) takes place in my fictional town of Aspen Lake, which is a resort town in southeastern Saskatchewan, and is the third and final book in my Aspen Lake series. My heroine, Grace Bighill, serves drinks at The Back Forty, which is a term homesteaders used to refer to the back section of land on a farm. Constable Mike Davenport is a RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) officer with career ambitions that reach far beyond the prairies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Until then…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enter to win a $25 Amazon or Kobo gift card by telling me a favourite book setting in the comments!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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