Today's excerpt is from the fun children's series, Cynthia's Attic, by author Mary Cunningham.In book three, CURSE OF THE BAYOU (2007, Echelon Press), time-traveling best friends Gus and Cynthia find themselves in 1914 New Orleans.
There, the girls search for answers in the disappearance of Cynthia's great-grandfather, Beau Connor, who was on his way down the Mississippi River to sell a flatboat full of produce.
(Book Four: THE MAGICIAN'S CASTLE will be published in December '09.)
Excerpt, CURSE OF THE BAYOU:
"Don’t move.”
“Are you kidding? Why on earth would I move?”
Just another boring trip through the trunk. There we were, hanging on for dear life to a log in the middle of a swamp.
My best friend and I had been on some frightening adventures together since discovering time travel through an old trunk in her attic. But nothing prepared us for a face-to-face encounter with an alligator. No, siree. Nothing prepared us for this.
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This book sounds very interesting. I'm curious as to how you handled the language differences between now and the year 1900s. Did you do a lot of research?
ReplyDeleteGreat question, Katie! I tried to keep the language of the ancestors (around 1914) a little more formal. I was very careful not to use words from today that were not even heard of in the early 20th century. I also stayed away from slang that could be dated.
ReplyDeleteI also had to be sure that Cynthia and Gus used dialogue from the
1960s. An even greater challenge was giving a Cajun voice to Mud Bug. That was fun!
Thanks for the comment!
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