Is Livy-Two fashioned after the young Kerry Madden?
I guess I do have little bits of Livy Two – I wanted adventure and escape (mostly from football), and I loved books. But I really imagined my sister-in-law, Tomi Lunsford, a singer-songwriter in Nashville, growing up as a little girl, writing her songs. Q: Your stories have been likened to the escapades of the former Walton Clan, from the John Boy days. You live in Los Angeles, yet you write about mountain people from a different, simpler life. Is this your attempt to get back to what grounds us? I was missing the mountains when I started writing GENTLE’S HOLLER. So much of the writing life in Los Angeles can be about pitches, movie deals, pilots, and studio execs asking about “emotional arcs” from speaker phones in New York. I even have a friend who calls his local coffee shop “Cafe Failure” because it’s filled with so many meetings and laptops. It can kill your soul after a while. I decided I wanted/needed to write about a family that I loved and cared about, and I thought about writ
