Carla Solomon

Sitting outside, just cool enough for a light sweater, birds chirping, hummingbirds swooping by… Mother Nature is the perfect co-editor. I’ve made it through the 1st round of edits on the full manuscript. Now on to the 2nd round. I hope Sam and Rocky help me tell the story well.

That’s what I have to pitch the sequel to A GHOSTLY TWIST, so here it goes. Sam and Rocky meet some ghosts on an old indigo plantation in Charleston. The one in the house seems harmless, but the one haunting the grounds weighs Sam down with its sorrow and anger. To get rid of the…

It’s a rainy day, dark and grey. For some reason I was awake at 5 am. It should be a perfect day for a nap. My husband’s sleeping. My cat is sleeping. But not me. Sigh.

Have you ever felt the touch of a ghost? Maybe a tingle down your spine or something that makes you shudder? An inexplicable feeling of being watched? That’s what Sam feels in A GHOSTLY TWIST. It confuses him at first, as I’m sure it would me. But because he’s very smart, he learns how to…

Have you ever met a ghost? I can’t say that I have, but somehow I know they’re out there. Something you see out of the corner of your eye or maybe that feeling that you’re not alone. I’m curious who out there has met one and what did you think?

The sun is warm, the snow is gone and the daffodils are poking out of the ground. My sequel is coming along. I now know a lot more about growing and producing indigo. It was nasty business–fermenting leaves that smelled like rotten cabbage and lye that could burn you. Funny how it used to be…

That’s what the beginning of Spring is called in Vermont. All the pretty white snow is gone and nothing is green yet. And yes, there’s lots of mud. But just like those April showers, it will water the plants and vegetables we grow this summer. Spring everywhere is a time to come alive again, to…

We went to Attitash New Hampshire for a few days. Beautiful scenery. Very peaceful, especially when you are the only one not skiing. I realized I’m not the type of writer who can sit alone in a cabin and end up with a finished book. Instead, I went a little stir crazy. Even had a…

In any world we create in a book, there have to be rules, and that’s true for ghosts, too. Rule #1) Ghosts can be seen by humans when they want the human’s help to finish or correct something they couldn’t before their demise