I asked fellow Tales from The Hanging Tree anthology contributors to share some things about themselves prior to publication and those generous enough to do so will be appearing here for the next week or so.
Each entry gives a taste of their contribution, a little about them, how to contact them, how their story came about, and definitely a link to Tales from The Hanging Tree (which you should purchase because it would make each and every one of us happy.
you do want to make us happy, don’t you?
i mean, considering what we wrote, you want us to know you’re a good person, right?).
Kaye has two pieces in Tales from The Hanging Tree. Yesterday we explored The Legend of Cottonwood Hollow and today we explore her second offering The One That Got Away. Here’s a taste:
The short squat man called Slim jerks her up by her hair and she spits in his face in defiance. He drags her across the course ground, bound and trussed up like a Thanksgiving turkey, unable to fight back. Harvey, the tall and skinny one, leads her horse over to stand beneath a sturdy cottonwood branch, tying the rope to the saddle horn.
“Well, I’ll be pickled. I’m gonna be hung by my own horse. Things can’t get much worse.”
How the story came about:
This story was an alternate p.o.v. to an incident which occurs in Book 1 of my Women in the West Adventure Series, Delilah. This scene occurs near the beginning of the book, when Delilah and her fourteen year old ward, Sarah, are overtaken by two ruffians in the wilderness, and they abduct the girl and rape and hang Delilah, leaving her for dead. Delilah survives to tell her own tale, but not before her memories of the events which brought her to that point in time were absorbed by the hanging tree.
About Kaye Lynne Booth:
For Kaye Lynne Booth, writing is a passion. Kaye Lynne is an author with published short fiction and poetry, both online and in print, including her short story collection, Last Call and Other Short Fiction; and her paranormal mystery novella, Hidden Secrets; Books 1 & 2 of her Women in the West adventure series, Delilah and Sarah, and her Time-Travel Adventure novel, The Rock Star & The Outlaw. Kaye holds a dual M.F.A. degree in Creative Writing with emphasis in genre fiction and screenwriting, and an M.A. in publishing. Kaye Lynne is the founder of WordCrafter Quality Writing & Author Services and WordCrafter Press. She also maintains an authors’ blog and website, Writing to be Read, where she publishes content of interest in the literary world.
You can find and follow Kaye on Writing to be Read, WordCrafter Quality Writing & Author Services, Facebook: Kaye Lynne Booth Author & Screenwriter, WordCrafter Quality Writing & Author Services, and Women of the West Adventure Series.
See all Tales from The Hanging Tree stories here.
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