About Me
 | Elaine Deyo Branson, Missouri Member since: Jan, 2008 Last login: 11/16/2009 Last update : 11/07/2008 Contact Me |
| photo credit: Dickson Photography | |
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| Hometown | Marshall County, Minnesota |
| Ethnicity | White/Caucasian |
| Nationality | United States |
About Me
I've been writing since childhood: As a youngster, I would occasionally dream I had thought up a fantastic poem, actually get up out of bed, in my sleep, write the poem on my tablet, and in the morning find nothing but scribbles on the page. As an adult, I write entire books and screenplays. But now my poetry is sad and tragic.
My writing background includes writing newspaper advertizing for restaurants, hospitality and real estate, employee manuals and guides, and designing many restaurant menus. I've written three books for youth - The Kansas City Marvels - The FBI Briefcase, The Kansas City Marvels - The Seven Diamonds, and Annika At Wilderness Hotel. I taught myself screenplay writing and wrote four. I wrote articles for a foreign fiberarts magazine (Echoes), and a local travel related magazine (TravelHost).
My working experience of twenty-five years management in small to medium size hotels, and in restaurants, provides me with a rich source of authentic background for my books.
On October, 10, 2008, the first book of my series for women of undetermined age, "The Eva Roger's Small Hotel's Mysteries - The Lodge of The Four Winds", became available at http://www.lulu.com
Relationship Status
- Been there, done that. Widow.
Family
Five sons, one daughter, three-step sons, three step-daughters, numberous "grands" and "in-laws".
Interests & Hobbies
I am a writer. I am a fiber artist.
I was a multiple-harness weaver for many years and loved it. I eventually shifted to finer and closer warp setts. I always wanted the structure to provide me with more. I developed an intricate method, using an ancient weave structure, that can produce picture-like images.
As a felting artist, in 1997, I developed a technique that resembles watercolor painting. I named my unique technique "Watercolor Technique Art Felts".
I'm a tapestry artist. I use a very fine warp of linen, and close warp setts of 22 to 26 ends per inch, to produce tiny and small tapestries. For my present and future books, I have/will weave original tapestries to use as the image on my book covers. This, I believe, is unique in the world of novel writing.
I write incessantly, and spend a great deal of time researching for my books.
Web Links
UPCOMING WORK
- Watch for the first volume of my series, Eva Roger"s Small Hotels Mysteries, available October 2008, at lulu.com. First, let me assure you of this: I considered for many days, struggled even, to decide whether I should tell my personal stories, my adventures, to complete strangers. I wondered, will I be judged as naive? Will some find my actions inappropriate? For a while I thought, no, don't tell. My life should be private. How many people will understand a "woman of undetermined age" leading a dangerous and exciting life? Can strangers, like you, relate? I think I'm a normal woman. But will some find my actions unseemly? Will I appear to be unladylike? Outrageously out of character for one my age and position in society, which is unremarkable, given that I'm everyday, born to an everyday family, living an everyday life? Even I have trouble believing that I'm someone who attracts danger, intrigue, and nefarious characters posing as upstanding citizens. But I do. All I ask is that you don't judge me. A solid core of danger–loving recklessness rocks through me. It can't be ignored any more than a strange capacity to sense things that others cannot. But that sense isn't precise, so it is often useless. I certainly don't know how I came by it. I don't want it, but it insists on being. My stories will serve to acquaint you with the real me, a woman who was often misunderstood by my family, and by those in my own social class, and the new friends who share my misadventures. I've changed their names and mine, as well as places, dates, events and the timing of them. Therefore, Eva Roger's Small Hotels Mysteries are works of fiction. Right?
INFLUENCES
- A career of more than twenty-five years in the food and hospitality business has prepared me for authentic platforms to set my Eva Roger's Small Hotels Mysteries upon. That and a childhood of standing outside the norm in my community, in small town Minnesota, populated by first and second generation, impassive, Scandinavian Lutherans. I was the "wild child", one of the girls with an unjustified bad repuation, the outspoken noncomformist, practically run out of town because of my views.
PUBLISHERS
- Self
HOW TO CONTACT MY PUBLISHER
- evestudio@suddenlink.net
