Throwback Thursday: Vancouver by Gail Sattler
Vancouver, which is a series of 4 novellas is probably my favorite project. This started with one of the first books I wrote, before I was published. It was actually great sending it in, becuase when it was requested, it was already written. The first book in the series, Gone Camping, features my first ever tent-trailer. I had never been camping in my life, but my husband had been camping many times as a kid. So when our kids were small we got the brilliant idea (or maybe not so brilliant, it seems brilliant at the time), since we didn’t want to sleep on the cold hard ground in a tent, we bought an old very-used tent trailer. And that was our first family camping trip. It has its challenges, but we loved it so much that the next year we sold it and bought a newer tent-trailer that had a small fridge and furnace, with the option of propane or real electricity, and you could actually hook up running water.
We had some fun times with our boys when they were growing up in that tent trailer, so it seems fitting that our first foray with a tent-trailer would be used as research in one of my favorite books. Gone Camping was voted by the Heartsong readership as the #1 favorite novel of the series that year, and I was awarded the title of Favorite Heartsong Author that year, quite an honor. I enjoyed writing Gone Camping so much it became the first book in the series with all the other main characters in the story, including a surprise hero in the last story, which was a request from a reader. That one won an award, too.
After all four books were successful, Barbour Publishing combined the four of them into a single cover novel. Of course I love the cover. It’s where I live. I wish I could take photos like that.
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Gail Sattler lives in Vancouver BC Canada, where you don’t have to shovel rain. When she’s not madly writing (Gail Sattler has over 40 published novels and novellas, plus a few works of non-fiction) she plays bass for an Elton John tribute band as well as a community jazz band, plus she plays piano for a smaller private jazz band. When she’s not writing or making music (or at her day job) Gail likes to sit back and read a book written by someone else, along with a good cup of hot coffee. Visit Gail Sattler’s website at www.gailsattler.com
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