A SUMMER AT SAGAMORE - Lisa M Prysock - One Free Book

Welcome, Lisa. Tell us how much of yourself you write into your characters. Hi Lena, thanks for having me on your awesome blog! I usually include many tidbits of myself in my heroines, but sometimes they are not at all like me. I like a great deal of variety in all of my characters and main characters. 

What is the quirkiest thing you have ever done? As a young teen, I think the quirkiest thing I’ve ever done was keeping a Princess Diana scrapbook. I loved dreaming about fairytale romantic happily ever after endings. I kept clippings of many of her magazine and tabloid articles.

When did you first discover that you were a writer? I think I’ve always known I was a writer. I can remember making a book even in kindergarten when the other children were playing. The love of writing never stopped. It only grew from there. I always wrote private journals throughout my life, and then as a teen, won some awards for a short chapter story and some poetry. Blogging helped me develop my writing, and I kept notebooks with partially started stories and story ideas all over the place. I finally published my first book in 2011 when the Lord revived my writing dream and I was nearing the finish line of raising and homeschooling our children.          

Tell us the range of the kinds of books you enjoy reading. I like a wide variety of books, from biographies, to non-fiction, to fiction. I enjoy many genres, but I tend to stick to Christian fiction, biographies, and my Bible.

How do you keep your sanity in our run, run, run world? I try not to run, run, run. I’m a homebody at heart.      

How do you choose your characters’ names? Sometimes I’ll google lists of names and peruse those. Other times, readers will suggest names to use if I reach out to them. Most of the time, I have a name in mind for my characters.

What is the accomplishment that you are most proud of? Raising my children and being a wife and mother is my greatest accomplishment, and second to this would be my writing.   

If you were an animal, which one would you be, and why? I wouldn’t like to be an animal because I am a creature of comfort, but I think I’ll go with a cat here, or maybe a giraffe.

What is your favorite food? I can’t name just one, but I do love a good steak, salad, baked potatoes, green beans and other veggies, cantaloupe, grapes, black cherries, spaghetti, ravioli, fettucine with red sauce, tacos, and pizza if it’s done right. I also like a good roast beef with mashed potatoes and roasted carrots or homemade chicken noodle soup. “Fashion, food, faith, and fun” is one of my slogans. I’m also the “Old Fashioned Everything Girl.” 

You’re making me hungry. What is the problem with writing that was your greatest roadblock, and how did you overcome it? My biggest problem with writing was not knowing how to finish most books I started. I had an endless supply of ideas and themes, but I couldn’t fill in the middle or end. I solved it by creating a brief outline of my plot. Once I knew where I was going and had a roadmap of the beginning, middle, and end, I knew I could write anything. I do occasionally still become stuck, but through prayer and talking it out with my husband or a writing friend, I can usually figure out what to do next. Sometimes the Lord will speak to my heart with a fresh idea.          

When He does that, it is so exciting. Tell us about the featured book. A Summer at Sagamore is a Gilded Age romance with a 1907 setting in the Adirondacks. Filled with mayhem and mystery, something is afoot at the Sagamore when Abby arrives with her sister, cousin, and grandmother for their annual summer vacation. Normally, the cousins choose a beau to adore from afar, and Abby’s sister and cousin entice her to continue with the tradition. When she chooses Jack, she has no idea how much mayhem and mystery is happening all around them. Jack’s father is connected to the resort as an investor, so he is determined to get to the bottom of things, and with Abby’s help, they turn into sleuths and begin to fall in love while solving the mystery.          

Please give us the first page of the book.

It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.

—Maud Hart Lovelace

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June of 1907

At the beginning of every summer, Abby thought the world lay at her feet. Anything could happen in the span of three months—seldom lasting long enough—but always months filled with bliss, wonder, and escape. From aboard the Sagamore steamboat, Abigail Rose Greenwood reveled in the views of natural beauty surrounding them in the wilds of what comprised only a mere glimpse of the millions of acres known as the Adirondack Park. She found herself speechless at the unfolding glory, unlike her travel companions as they stood alongside the upper deck’s rails. The ship plowed steadily forward, cutting a path through blue-green waves and pristine waters splashing below them, the gale making her feel alive with anticipation as they neared their destination.

“I can’t wait to see the Sagamore Resort.” Abby’s younger sister Catherine stretched out her arms over the railing to embrace the wind blowing her brunette curls around her shoulders, her brown eyes wide and bright. Seventeen, she glowed with apparent excitement about the adventure.

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Thank you, Lisa, for sharing A Summer at Sagamore with my blog readers and me.

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