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What are the rules for writing a blog?
Of course I hope it will encourage you to buy and share the fiction titles I have written, but more importantly, I hope to encourage and inspire by taking a deeper look at life through a Christian worldview lens. There are so many troubling things that occur in life and our responses to these situations are important. I’ve been tempted to spout my angst and ideas on social media, but realise that is often not fruitful. Usually it can be destructive in terms of words spoken that harm and don’t heal. But that doesn’t mean I don’t think, ponder, consider, listen, research, listen for God’s wisdom. I’d like to say I know it all, but I don’t. Ha. I guess that’s not such a big surprise.
Anyway, I’ve been constructing a non-fiction book chapter by chapter, based on these thoughts, considerations and listening, but the publishing world is brutal at the moment, and selling a book is hard work. So I’ve decided to make it available to you as a blog (probably outside all the rules of blog writing).
Click here to follow through to the blog. https://meredithresce.com/2021/11/24/alrighty-then-part-1/
Real Heart of Green Valley Fans
I’m looking for long time readers who have read and enjoyed my ‘Heart of Green Valley’ series. Can you name the main characters from each novel? The Manse Green Valley Through the Valley of Shadows Wallace Hill Beyond the Valley If you post your answers on my facebook...
read moreInterview – Mortal Insight
Recently I caught up with Jayne and Sharon at Life FM, and we chatted for a while about ‘Mortal Insight’ and other things about writing and reading. Life FM is an Adelaide radio station, but you can listen to it live streaming on-line. Here is the interview:
read moreMortal Insight – New Title – New Pen Name
My new novel is now available. You can download it from Amazon as an eBook – or buy a hard copy on line from Rhiza Press. I hope you enjoy this new story – new genre – new action.
read moreRelease Date Early October
My new novel – Mortal Insight will be available for purchase in two short months. This is the first novel I have released under my new pen name, E.B. James. Detective Sergeant Steve Keller has begun to see things. He desperately hopes the visions mean something and not that he’s going crazy. But the visions don’t go away, and when they start meaning something more, Steve finds himself caught in an investigation way bigger than he ever imagined. As the pieces begin to fit together, something dangerous emerges. He can’t hide what...
read moreIntroducing E.B. James
Well it was bound to happen sooner or later. Earlier this year my first Crime Drama was released. It is so unlike the Meredith Resce period drama romance that my readers have become used to over the last 16 years that I have released it under another name. E.B. James. Yes all three names belong to me in some way or another, so it is still me, but this read is not the usual me at all. The title is ‘Mortal Insight’. It is a contemporary crime conspiracy drama and I’m excited about it. Detective Sergeant Steve Keller has begun...
read moreShooting Cover Images
Over the years as each new title came out, I was also part of the process of cover design. For the Green Valley series and a number of other titles I actually spoke to young people of my acquaintance who I thought might represent my characters, then organised costume fittings, hairdressers, locations and on occasion babies and animals. It was actually all a huge amount of fun. Then I got the crazy idea that while I had these young people all dressed up in the fashion of a long gone era, I might get a video camera in action as well, and see...
read moreThe Real Me
When you’re trying to impress a buying public one writes all sorts of formal things to introduce the writer. Here is where you read about the other Meredith Resce. Though I’ve been married now since 1983 and have not lived on the farm in all that time, I am still a farm girl at heart. You know the old saying, ‘you can take the girl out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the girl’. That’s me, much to my husband’s chagrin. I was bought up in the farm yard literally, mainly because I...
read moreRecent Visit to My Cora Villa
After nearly twenty years we have returned to another season living in Victoria. Last time we were stationed in Geelong and this beautiful house was the inspiration behind the story ‘Cora Villa’. Just after Christmas our long time friends from Geelong invited us down from Melbourne for the day. We took a walk along the foreshore – the setting for ‘Cora Villa’ and we made a special stop in front of the house. The following piece is found at the front of the novel, and gives you some insight into how the story came...
read moreThe Progression of “The Manse”
I had been toying with writing for about three or four years, and had hand written about six novels, that, despite a huge effort to interest publishers remained mouldering in the filing drawer at home. Then, one cold winter’s day, my husband and I travelled out to a small church in the Victorian countryside, to conduct a wedding. I played the piano and sang for the wedding, but as soon as my job was done, I’m afraid my mind and imagination was taken up by the little blue-stone church whose very walls seemed to call out to me. It was as if...
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