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This week we are being introduced to Cammy’s mother, Callista. Wife, mother, creative genius and a woman who exists in a world of her own. With four children by four of her many lovers all of whom intermingle into an ever changing and ever loving tapestry around her and her unusual family.
Cammy’s mother was also unique. She was an artist, and spent most of her time in her studio, doing hugely creative and profitable things. Callista—and what can you expect with a name like that—had not so much encouraged him, as forced him to ‘be himself’. Brought up in a commune, by a dye-in-the-wool hippie mother, Callista married a young, up-and-coming lawyer at sixteen and left the commune for a ‘normal’ life. Some chance. That marriage lasted three years—the longest so far. Four children and a number of disparate relationships later, she was single again, having split with her latest ‘soul mate’, a free spirited young woman who’d left to ‘find herself’ in Tibet. Brokenhearted, Callista threw herself into her art, and became ditsier than ever.
This is from my current WIP soon to be submitted…somewhere. Here’s the blurb
Cammy’s home life is unusual. He is one of four children by four different fathers all of whom are still in a relationship with his mother (and sometimes each other)
Thorne is from an ultra conservative background and is thrown into the world of communes and unusual combinations when his own family turn their backs on him
Bow is…well Bow.
Can Thorne get over his hangups and see that the three are meant to be together, and will an assassin’s bullet end what happiness he could have found?
Intriguing 😀
Unusual home life indeed! I’ll bet Cammy has a unique outlook on life. 🙂
Oh my gosh yes! He’s quite the drama queen too so you’re never left to wonder long what his take on any situation is. He’s very opinionated and quick to let you know what that opinion is. He does have the grace to admit when he’s wrong though, or when he’s gone too far.
Interesting! I want to know more, and I really, really want to read this.
Thank you 🙂 This is a pretty unique story, I think. When the boys started talking to be I really wasn’t sure if the world was ready for their story 😀 It’s quite a challenge in quite a few ways. After foot stamping from Cammy, glowering from Thorne and a kiss from Bow…especially the kiss from Bow, and that little smile…I Caved and wrote it. Now it’s up to the publishers if anyone else will get to read it
Love the mom, love the hippie subculture, cannot wait to read this one!
There are quite a lot of hippyish elements and imagery. There are other subcultures too and a lot of vastly differing people
Callista sounds very interesting – loads of life experience to share there.
Callista’s a doll. She’s very, very loosely based on someone I knew once. Well, the mother of someone I knew once. I’d have killed to have her as my mother although with someone as free spirited as that behind me I have no idea where I would have ended up. I’d probably be living on a mountain in Tibet or something
This sounds like a very interesting family.
You don’t know the half!!
Unique background indeed!
It is. There are a lot of unique things in this story.
I’m digging all the background on these characters. They’re going to be interesting for sure!
I figured if I introduced all the character it might encourage people to want to know their story. That’s what happened to me when Cammy and Thorne raged into my life