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Jeanette Vaughan

Jeanette Vaughan

About

Jeanette Vaughan is an award winning writer and story teller. Not only is she published in the periodicals and professional journals of nursing, but also in the genre of fiction. Her favorite characters are Baby Boomers. Out on her sheep farm, she has written several novels and scripts. Her screenplay "Angel of Mercy" won the outstanding nursing research award from Texas Tech University Health Science Center. In addition, she was named Distinguished Alumni for the school of nursing in 2001 for her written work and volunteerism for the Sydney Olympic Games. Jeanette has practiced nursing in the fields of critical care and trauma. She is the mother of four children, including two Navy pilots. She lives in a Victorian farmhouse out in the pastures of northeast Texas with her sheep, chickens, donkeys and sheep dogs.

A Shadow in Yucatan

A Shadow in Yucatan

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<p>A mythical jewel of a story… A true story told on a beach in Yucatan, A Shadow tells Stephanie's story but it was also the story of the golden time. Its nostalgia sings like cicadas in the heat.</p><p>An American ‘Under Milkwood’, this distilled novel of the Sixties evokes the sounds, music and optimism on the free-wheelin streets and parks of Coconut Grove. You can hear Bob Dylan still strumming acoustic; smoke a joint with Fred Neil; and Everybody’s Talkin is carried on the wind.</p><p>Stephanie, a young hairdresser living in lodgings finds herself pregnant. Refused help from her hard Catholic mother in New York, unable to abort her baby, she accepts the kindness of Miriam, her Jewish landlady, whose own barren life spills into compassionate assistance for the daughter she never had.</p><p>The poignancy of its ending, its generosity and acceptance, echoes the bitter disappointment of those of us who hoped for so much more, but who remember its joy, and its promise, as though untarnished by time.</p>

Story Behind The Book

Sometimes, the choices we make in our lives have devastating consequences. Nora finds this out as she tests the boundaries of 1960s New Orleans. Women's lib was not yet in full force. When she decides to learn how to fly a plane, it doesn't sit well with the expectations of her powerful, well to do husband. I met the woman on whom this book is based in 1980. Her story was riveting, begging to be told. Sassy, sexy, Nora takes us on a romp through Mardi Gras, the French Quarter, and 1960s high society. A glass houses frailties are exposed as she confronts domestic violence, Catholic tradition and adoption all in the name of love. Enjoy traveling with her in the cockpit as she overcomes it all!

Media Links

Conversations Live Magazine

🔗 http://www.blogtalkradio.com/middayconversations/2012/08/30/author-jeanette-vaughan-stops-by-conversations-live

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In the Author's Corner

🔗 http://ww2.blogtalkradio.com/intheauthorscornerwithetienne/2012/05/25/jeanette-b-vaughan-is-flying-solo

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Reviews

<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><font size="3">“In all of my years as a professional aviation journalist, I have yet to read a novel as expressive and compelling, heart-pounding and adventurous as <em>Flying Solo</em>.<span>  </span>The words of Jeanette Vaughan will propel readers skyward toward discovering their own ‘love and life’ desires.”</font></font></p><p></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt .5in;text-indent:-.25in;" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"><span><span><span style="font-family:Calibri;">-</span><span style="font:7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';">          </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><font size="3">Amy Gallagher, Published Aviation Journalist</font></span></p><p></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt .5in;" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><a href="http://www.amytheaviationwriter.com/"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">www.amytheaviationwriter.com</span></a></p><p></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt .5in;" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"><font size="3"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">AirMed &amp; Rescue Magazine</span></font></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"> <br /><span style="font:14px/20px Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#333333;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;background-color:#ffffff;">&quot;This true story made into a 5 star novel really kept me on the edge of my seat&quot;     -  Joanna Keating-Velasco <br /><span style="font:small/normal verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;background-color:#ffffff;"><br />&quot;I really enjoyed this book. I do have to say that I felt sad that this book ended . . . <span style="font:small/normal verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;background-color:#ffffff;">I certainly hope that there will be a sequel.  I would LOVE to see Nora Jean's further adventures, if she ever flies again.&quot; <br />-  M &quot;CultofStrawberry&quot; Amazon Top 500 Reviewer</span></span></span></font>