7/4/2023 0 Comments Ghost riders by sharyn mccrumbThe magic realism probably began for Susanne when she was picked up at the Atlanta airport by Major Sue, an elfin army intelligence officer from Wisconsin, and driven up several hours north into the hills of Georgia to be set down in Helen, a Bavarian theme-park-style alpine village that has made many an unsuspecting traveler believe in magic realism - or at least in Oz. The publisher sent my editor Susanne Kirk down from New York to host the festivities. When the first Ballad novel If Ever I Return Pretty Peggy-O was published in 1990 Scribners hosted a publication party for the book at that year’s Appalachian Studies Conference at Unicoi State Park, near Helen, Georgia. What moved you to include this sort of supernatural element in your stories? Nora Bonesteel is a character many of your readers look forward to reading about when your Ballad novels are published.
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