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Diamond Gothic

I remember the endless hours I spent watching and re-watchingAnne of Green Gables as a kid and teen.  It's been a while now, but every time I catch it running on some obscure channel I stick around and watch for a while.  It conjures up memories and emotions one can only feel at the tender and tempestuous age of 16.

Another story I became quite fond of during required reading my junior year of high school, was The Great Gatsby. The glamour!  The romance!  The passion!  The tragedy!  Oh, Mr. Fitzgerald, what you did to my heart! (Or maybe it was Robert Redford who did it... I'm not entirely sure)

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In any case, I've started writing a rotating novel with a couple talented lady-friends and as the story has developed it seems to have become a strange amalgam of Anne & Gatsby.  Our story, Diamond Gothic, is also set in the 1920s.  and centers around the heroine (or is she?), Annabell Hayworth.  Each chapter is no longer than 3 pages and all the writing/story progression is improvisational.  No one of us authoresses knows what will happen until the authoress before her turns in their chapter...

In Chapter One, written by me, we meet 19 year old Annabell hours before she will be shot in the stomach at a lavish garden party in Wilmington, North Carolina.  Chapter Two, written by JC Coccoli, flashes back to the beginning of the summer and is set at Annabell's family's summer home in Savannah, GA.  We meet Annie's parents, Walter & Dorothy, her younger brother, Junior, and a mysterious presence is introduced that will begin to haunt the family as the story moves on.  In Chapter Three, written by Abigail Spencer, we begin to understand the inner workings of Annabell's family & household and Chapter Four, written by me as at the rotation begins again, introduces us to a handsome young man, Theodore Wentworth, who will send our Annie into quite a spin.  Meanwhile, Dorothy and Walter have woven a tangled web for themselves in their marriage.

As Diamond Gothic continues, we learn about Walter & Dorothy, a few family secrets, we meet a dazzling redhead with secrets of her own, hear rumors about a heart-stopping troublemaker (is there any other kind?) Jason Wenworth, we venture into the servants quarters and find out what Nessie, the chief of staff has to hide, and while young love peppers our novel, the element of suspense keeps you coming back for more.

Jason Wentworth?

I hope you'll all take a few minutes to get caught up on Diamond Gothic this week.  We are slowly starting to build a steady fan-base, and we'd love your support!  Soon we'll have audio versions of our chapters for sale on iTunes (read by each corresponding authoress).

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