About
Carol A. Strickland is the author of two novels, Touch of Danger, from Cerridwen Press, and Burgundy and Lies, from Lulu. She is unusually obsessed with Wonder Woman and has a column, "Star-Spangled Panties," that runs on Comic Book Resources.
Description
<p>What if you treated others the way you'd like to be treated? What if everyone did that? What kind of world could there be? Robert and Kait decide to look for the golden ruler that their Mom has told them about, only to find out that she meant RULE instead of ruler. What is this "Golden Rule" and what does it mean? Join in the children's quest to discover how to follow the Golden Rule and share it with others, as you meet many classroom friends from the author's previous books. This is the eighth rhyming children's book by award-winning author Sherrill S. Cannon, whose other bestselling books include Mice & Spiders & Webs...Oh My!, My Fingerpaint Masterpiece, Manner-Man, Gimme-Jimmy, The Magic Word, Peter and the Whimper-Whineys and Santa's Birthday Gift. Former teacher Sherrill S. Cannon has won thirty-six awards for her previous rhyming books and is also the author of seven published and internationally performed plays for elementary school children. She has been called "an absolute master of rhyming" by Mother Daughter Book Reviews and "a modern day Dr. Seuss" by GMTA Review. She lives in New Hope, Pennsylvania. Now retired, she travels the country with her husband in an RV, going from coast to coast to visit their children and grandchildren, and sharing her books along the way. Publisher's website: http://sbpra.com/sherrillscannon</p>
Story Behind The Book
Historical romance is so fun, but I always enjoyed the ones with a more modern viewpoint more. They made me imagine: what if that was me back then? What if there were no lords or ladies in sight, that this was a story about real people who had to work for a living? What if they spoke like people talk instead of in flowery historic phrases where you had to turn a sentence inside-out for it to make sense, and where people never said what they meant to say?
I had a lot of fun writing about Abbie and her mounting problems, as well as her wonderful guilt complex, based on how she just knew she was going to burn in Hell--or at least wait a literal eternity in Purgatory--for the decisions she had to make. Jean-Marc is as much of a goofy scoundrel as I could imagine and still have him be good potential husband material. And his brother--! Such fun to create a coffee-addicted workaholic during the Renaissance!
Burgundy and Lies is available in mass market paperback, trade paperback, ebook form... even large-print form.
