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About ::
A Letter from Cindy ::
Contacting Cindy
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Cindy Brandner
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I live in the interior of
British Columbia with a menagerie that includes: one
husband, three children, two dogs, one cat and an
assortment of impermanent lodgers otherwise known as
‘neighbourhood children.’
The two
great passions of my life are writing and Irish history,
in writing Exit Unicorns I have, I hope, fused these two
elements together. Much of the fiction I read today has
left me feeling that, while the writing was technically
good, there wasn’t enough story to sink my teeth into.
I believe myself to be a storyteller before all else.
Thousands of years ago I’d of sat by the tribal fire
and woven tales for my shaggy-haired listeners. Very
simply, it’s what I was meant to do.
I’ve
traveled extensively in Ireland, particularly in the
North where my story takes place. I walked the streets
where history was made and smelled the smoke and blood
of those times. I spoke with people on both sides of the
political and religious divide about their beliefs and
their struggles- this included a particularly memorable
evening in an IRA pub. I drew from my own family history
as well, the stories told by my great-grandmother who
was a native of Belfast and left the country she loved
because of political upheaval.
Currently
I’m hard at work on the continuing story of Jamie,
Pamela and Casey that began with Exit Unicorns.
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October
2010- A letter from Cindy
Hello Everyone,
It’s been a very long time since I updated this section of the
website. It’s October now and another year is drawing toward its end,
so I thought I should let everyone know where the book is at in terms of
it actually being complete sometime soon.
I hate to forecast when I might actually finish any given work, because
inevitably I miss that deadline and then feel guilty over it. But I do
think that I will have the first draft completed by the spring. After
that, of course, it has to go through a few hands that very generously
look it over for me, provide corrections to grammar and punctuation and
any gliches in the timeline. Then it comes back to me and I slowly work
through all the corrections. Lastly it goes out to two readers that are
coming to it completely fresh and they read it through for me and let me
know if anything jumps out and hits them on the nose and all that takes
time, as you might well imagine.
I hope you are all having a lovely fall- the weather here has been
sublime. I wish fall lasted as long as winter does here, but no such
luck.
Thanks to everyone who reads my book for their patience- it does take me
quite awhile to write each one, but I want them to be as good as I can
possibly make them- so I take my time.
Slainte,
Cindy
:: Contacting
Cindy
If
you have any questions about anything regarding the
books, or would just like to drop me a line, please feel
free to do so. I'd love to hear from you.

Email me:
Cindy Brandner
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