About the Book:
NOTHING GOOD COMES
FROM STINKING CREEK
Alone, again, after
the death of her fiancé, abstract artist Kiara Rafferty finds herself on
Stinking Creek, Tennessee. She wants out of this hillbilly backwater, where
hicks speak an unknown language masquerading as English. Isolated, if she doesn’t count the snakes and
termites infesting her cabin, only a one-way ticket home to Manhattan would
solve her problems.
Alone in a
demanding crowd, Delia Mae McGuffrey lives for God, her husband, her family,
and the congregation of her husband’s church. Stifled by rules, this pastor’s
wife walks a fine line of perfection, trying to please them all. Now an atheist
Yankee, who moved in across the road, needs her, too.
Two women. Two
problems. Each holds the key to the other’s freedom.
June 21, 2019
Humminbird Press
$2.99 ebook
$12.99 print
Buy on Amazon https://amzn.to/2Xxxc4w
A brief interview with the Author:
Tell us about the theme of your novel.
The themes of A New
York Yankee on Stinking Creek are nothing is as it seems and little
difference exists in any extreme.
The five-year-old
twins Macie and Dixon are mischievous, good-hearted children. They wander
where they shouldn't, and thus, they run into snakes, fall into ponds and
develop a strong friendship with the main character Kiara who supposedly hates
children They can't believe she's an atheist, doesn't know how to pray, and
doesn't go to church. Such oddity for a grown-up.
Macie loves Kiara's
dreadlocks and tries to make her own. When her father forbids her from making a
dreadful mess in her own hair trying to make it look like Kiara's, she
practices on his beard. Macie wants to be an abstract artist just like her
neighbor.
What do you hope readers will tell others?
When the reader
finishes this novel, she'll understand the fine line between extremes. She'll
see, beyond a few inconsequential differences, the North and South, as well as
the extremely conservative Christian and wild atheist. The two are more alike
than different.
We can't judge
superficially.
I hope to immerse
the reader in the sweet and simple world of Stinking Creek, Tennessee. They'll
laugh and cry and demand a sequel.
What are you reading now?
Currently, I'm
reading Take Me With You by Catherine
Ryan Hyde. It's a clean, secular read about a burned-out teacher who
unexpectedly finds himself taking two young boys on a road trip with him. Their
father's jailed and had begged August Schroeder to take his boys while he
serves his sentence. It's a compassionate, contemporary novel--my favorite
genre.
What’s next for you, Carol?
As for me, the
summer offers family visits and gardening and the world outdoors. I'm
developing my marketing skills and planning my next novel where a woman
discovers three neglected children whose parents overdose and die. The opioid
epidemic in Campbell County is brutal. I want the reader to see its devastation.
About the Author:
Author Carol
McClain is an eclectic artist and author of four books. Her interests vary as
much as the Tennessee weather-running, bassoons, jazz, stained glass and, of
course, writing. She's a transplant from New York who now lives in the hills of
East Tennessee with her husband and overactive Springer spaniel. She is the
president of ACFW Knoxville and the secretary of the Authors Guild of
Tennessee. In her "free time" she teaches life skills in the local
jail and supervises student teachers for WGU.
