“It’s not lightly that a man chooses his own brother” – THE BONECASTER’S COIN by Sarah Zama (quote)
SINEAD AND MICHAEL - Meet the main characters from my #WIP Ghost Trilogy, a historical fantasy story set in 1920s Chicago #historicalfiction Click To Tweet When I first met Michael, he helped me out. I had been falsely accused of theft. I’d been forced to take refuge in the stockroom of the hostel I’d…
photo by myakmysia I’m Sinéad O’Flanagan, I’m twenty-four and I’m a midwife. I came here to Chicago last year. It was Wednesday 15th July 1925. I will never forget that day, because as I enter the States, I could have as well been slapped onto the moon. Nothing here looks, smells or feels as it did in the…
BLOOD
Voices are always calling and I will listen
The world is changing so fast it is unsettling.
This city of Chicago is the most puzzling place I’ve ever visited. Full of people. Full of noise. It’s hard to listen when surrounded by noise like that. But voices are calling. They are always calling. And…
MICHAEL
I should have known better than to think my will alone would shape my life
I've always known why I was born, and as a young man, I willingly chose to follow that path. The path every man should tread, that of defending his people with his hands and his wit and protecting…
SIMON
The dreams fueled my desires and I follow them willingly
The world is changing so fast it is unsettling.
I remember plains of grass extending to the horizon. The sound of the wind swishing among the long green blades. An untamed river. Birds flying in the sky. Where has this maze of concrete come…
SUSIE
When I dance to jazz music, I feel free
It’s the weirdest of things, thinking about that life now. It feels like a dream, a sweet dream, sometimes. But so far away, I’m not even sure it was ever my life. I know it will never be again.
I was born in the…
BLOOD (Ghosts Through the Cracks by Sarah Zama) Acting on instinct is what Blood does best. He’s saved many lives that way. “Ghosts Through the Cracks is a novella of magic realism set in 1920s Chicago
MICHAEL (Ghosts Through the Cracks by Sarah Zama) I wish I could erase those years from my mind and my heart. Claw those memories off of me and just bury them where I will never find them again – Meet Michael, a character from my novella “Ghosts Through the Cracks”
The book is now entitled Ghosts Through the Cracks. Discover more here.
Some of you asked me what a blog tour is. Think at it as a tour of places where you go presenting your book. In real life, they’d be most likely bookshops or libraries. You’d show up, you’d talk about your book and…
SIMON (Ghosts Through the Cracks by Sarah Zama) I remember the dreams. Strange dreams that would visit me every night. The feeling is still with me. They gave me purpose, and I gave myself to them
SUSIE (Ghosts Through the Cracks by Sarah Zama) I love jazz. Why? I don’t know. It doesn’t sound like anything familiar to me, but when I listen to it and I dance, I free. So free sometimes I’m scared – Meet Susie, the main character of the novella “Ghosts Through the Cracks”