“Thank you, Outskirts Press for helping me make my dreams come true. My definition of success is getting the job done. It’s not so much a matter of sales as it is completion, for no art is truly complete until it can be shared. This entire book publishing process was very much a learning experience for me and I was pleased with the help my production team provided. Any questions or problems I had were promptly responded to. I opted for self-publishing to keep maximum control over the production of my work and in all my research, Outskirts Press seemed to offer the most for my dollar. My debut novel is a highly attractive book and has received flattering remarks from my reading audience so far. The Marketing COACH tips are helpful, though not all applicable to my book and situation. I do believe it would be easy to go overboard on spending for upgrades and marketing choices, and all options need to be weighed carefully to determine which are best for the work at hand. I plan on using Outskirts Press again for my future novels, and have no qualms in recommending them to those who ask.”
The fifth daughter born to Art and Phyllis Mathewson, L. F. Falconer lives in her hometown of Fallon, Nevada with her husband, Michael. Their combined family consists of five children, three dogs, and one small psycho-ninja cat named Bodie. Falconer enjoys gardening, oil painting, and exploring the Nevada Desert. “I’ve always found magic in the written word. When I write, I don’t know that I embrace any particular genre. If I get caught in an inspiration, I tend to just run with it.” Hope Flies on Broken Wings is her debut novel, with promises of more to follow. Author warning: This novel contains profanity, violence, and sexual situations.
 |
|
Product description…
It’s the last summer of Collie’s innocence.
It is the final summer of Collie’s innocence when an ill-fated romance forces her into maturity. Fast approaching the age of adulthood under the king’s law, Collie, the beautiful, eldest daughter of a Middletown tinker, sets her sights upon a handsome young fisherman named Dugan, the troubled son of an unscrupulous man from the lower-class village of Ganty. A tumultuous love affair soon ensues as they attempt to cross the lines of class segregation, bigotry, and religious differences amid their own internal conflicts. Collie clings to her dreams of grandeur—a life of unfettered leisure, travel, and excitement, for she fears to end up like her mother, tied to a kitchen and a house full of children. The rebellion against her mother and her way of life is a constant source of contention between them as she doggedly pursues Dugan, shunning the affections of the blacksmith, Arrick, a more proper, acceptable suitor, favored by Collie’s parents. Down in Ganty, there are two dangerous men of power—a pub master named Barrtel, and Dugan’s father, Harlo, cordial enemies that tolerate one another in an uneasy truce. Dugan spends a great deal of time drinking at Barrtel’s pub in an effort to escape some of the unspeakable horrors he has been involved with at the hands of his father. As Collie resists becoming her mother, Dugan resists becoming his father while the two young lovers struggle in their rocky, forbidden relationship, and Collie slowly begins to unravel the mystery of a secret past involving Harlo and her own parents. Set in the mythical realm of Donnel by the sea in the rising spread of Christianity, Hope Flies on Broken Wings delves into two adolescent minds and their individual, personal struggles that draw them together while pushing them apart—two souls seeking redemption, each with a completely different life view of what constitutes hell on earth in this poignant tale of love and loss.Outskirts Press Review
Leave a Reply