When you’ve spent hours every day for eight long years with the same group of people—indeed, when you’ve invented them from bits and pieces of your own psyche—they tend to stay with you. No wonder, then, that I feel a special fondness for the characters who inhabit my novel, ‘Til All These Things Be Done, […]
https://suzannemoyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/women-sniffing-snuff-early-1800s.png598996Suzanne Moyershttps://suzannemoyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Suzanne-Moyers_logo2.pngSuzanne Moyers2023-04-30 15:14:532023-04-30 15:20:13A Friendship Up to Snuff
The photo on the left, circa 1919, shows college women in Texas doing what college women have always done: hanging out together, having fun. Minus the nutcrackers and nightcaps, the image conjures fond memories of my own university experience, six decades later. Readers are often surprised that Leola, the protagonist of my novel, ‘TIL ALL […]
On Christmas Eve, Leola and Auntie shopped at Laird’s, buying plump oranges and hair ribbons for both girls…Leola also spied a pair of enamel collar buttons that would suit Joe perfectly—except they cost fifty cents and she only had a nickel left of spending money. “Go on, child.” Auntie pressed the additional coins […]
Leola did a mental inventory of their food supplies—a small side of ham, whatever eggs the chickens might lay, p’rhaps ten jars of vegetables, some cornmeal. Seemed they would go hungry if they weren’t careful—a thought that made her stomach clench like she was starving already. From ‘TIL ALL THESE THINGS BE DONE ‘Tis […]
Some of my best childhood memories of visiting my Texan grandparents involve food: fried chicken as crispy outside as it was tender inside; black-eyed beans stewed with ham hocks or bacon; iced tea so sweet, it made my teeth ache. But before I began researching this novel, I’d never heard of the mayhaw berry, an […]
https://suzannemoyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/mayhaw-berries.png208186Suzanne Moyershttps://suzannemoyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Suzanne-Moyers_logo2.pngSuzanne Moyers2022-11-12 15:57:502022-11-13 10:33:29The Flavor of Fiction: Part 1
A Friendship Up to Snuff
When you’ve spent hours every day for eight long years with the same group of people—indeed, when you’ve invented them from bits and pieces of your own psyche—they tend to stay with you. No wonder, then, that I feel a special fondness for the characters who inhabit my novel, ‘Til All These Things Be Done, […]
Independent Minds
The photo on the left, circa 1919, shows college women in Texas doing what college women have always done: hanging out together, having fun. Minus the nutcrackers and nightcaps, the image conjures fond memories of my own university experience, six decades later. Readers are often surprised that Leola, the protagonist of my novel, ‘TIL ALL […]
The Gifts of Christmas Present
On Christmas Eve, Leola and Auntie shopped at Laird’s, buying plump oranges and hair ribbons for both girls…Leola also spied a pair of enamel collar buttons that would suit Joe perfectly—except they cost fifty cents and she only had a nickel left of spending money. “Go on, child.” Auntie pressed the additional coins […]
A Southern Subsistence Primer
Leola did a mental inventory of their food supplies—a small side of ham, whatever eggs the chickens might lay, p’rhaps ten jars of vegetables, some cornmeal. Seemed they would go hungry if they weren’t careful—a thought that made her stomach clench like she was starving already. From ‘TIL ALL THESE THINGS BE DONE ‘Tis […]
The Flavor of Fiction: Part 1
Some of my best childhood memories of visiting my Texan grandparents involve food: fried chicken as crispy outside as it was tender inside; black-eyed beans stewed with ham hocks or bacon; iced tea so sweet, it made my teeth ache. But before I began researching this novel, I’d never heard of the mayhaw berry, an […]