Walking With Elephants by Karen S. Bell is on virtual book tour. The contemporary women's fiction stops at Readerop...
Walking With Elephants by Karen S. Bell is on virtual book tour.
The contemporary women's fiction stops at Readeropolis with an author guest post.
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How did you come up with the title of your first novel?
The title for my first novel, published in 2011, Walking with Elephants, was an interesting evolution. The novel depicts with humor the serious work/life issues women face today. (And unfortunately, still do.) But I learned from watching a documentary that in the animal kingdom there are species which are matriarchal societies. In fact, for elephants, a herd consists of only adult females and their young. Males only come around to mate. Bingo! Book’s message: perhaps the modern world needs a paradigm shift where women rule. The MC writes an essay at the end espousing this idea and the title of her essay is “Walking with Elephants” and hence the title of book.
Walking
With Elephants
by
Karen S. Bell
Genre:
Contemporary Women's Fiction
Suze
Hall is at a crossroads. Her nemesis at work, Wanda, has been
promoted and now will be her boss. Her husband, Bob, is leaving her
and the three kids for a six-month sabbatical down under. To top it
off, her best friend, Marcia, is missing in action—playing footsie
with some new boyfriend!
Adding
to this disaster stew, David, the gorgeous hunk who broke her
young-girl's heart has coincidentally popped back into her life and
has something she desperately needs to keep her job.
Walking
with Elephants, a lighthearted slice-of- life story, brings to the
table the serious work/family issues facing women today. It explores
the modern dichotomy of a workplace that is filled with homemakers
who still must cook, clean, carpool on nights and weekends, shop for
prom dresses, and "create" the holidays—such as Suze. But
it also is filled with women who have the same drive as men, have no
family responsibilities, and will do what ever it takes to get
ahead.
So
step into the shoes of Suze Hall and commiserate over workplace
politics, titillate your sexual fantasies, ride the wave of a working
mother, and fall-down laughing.
I
get so much satisfaction in the writing process. I take care to
choose just the right word, to make sure each sentence has the right
cadence. I appreciate other writers who respect the craft in this
way, and I hope my readers do so with me. Writing is a need, a desire
for expression, and springs from well within my subconscious mind.
Thoughts rise up, scenes rise up and blend in with the over-arching
story. These thoughts emerge whenever they want to and wherever I am
and probably not when I am at the computer. The computer is for the
craft, the technique. The thoughts come during walks, or while
driving the car, or at the grocery store. I am the willing recipient
of these thoughts and so they seek me out. It's a mystery this
business and art of writing and it keeps me enthralled.
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This sounds interesting, thanks for sharing!
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