[author title=”Carol Heilman” image=”https://www.almostanauthor.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/DSC0432.jpeg”]Carol Guthrie Heilman, a coal-miner’s daughter, married a farmer’s son, her high school sweetheart, over fifty years ago. She and her husband live in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Their children and grandchildren live near the east and west coasts where they often visit. Carol enjoys traveling, reading, writing, hiking, and cooking for friends. She is a recipient of two Carrie McCray Awards for writing excellence.[/author]
What is the title of your latest book?
Agnes Hopper Shakes Up Sweetbriar
Tell us more about your book:
Summer’s steamy haze coats North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, but Agnes Marie Hopper discovers the high heat isn’t the only thing causing her blood to boil. After trying to live with her daughter for six months, she and Betty Jo come to an understanding: neither can tolerate living with the other. So on a sultry August morning, a week after her seventy-first birthday, Agnes loads her few belongings into Betty Jo’s shiny, black Buick, and rides to Sweetbriar’s retirement home, Sweetbriar Manor.
Agnes has a nose for trouble and that’s exactly what she finds when she learns some of the residents are being robbed, over-medicated, and denied basic cable and Internet access. When it looks as if the administrator is behind the facility’s shady dealings, Agnes complains to the local sheriff but is told she’s a senile old woman who should mind her own business. Could it be he knows more than he’ll admit?
No matter. Agnes isn’t about to let bad police work and some unscrupulous administrator stop her. Armed with nothing more than seventy-one years of common sense and a knack for pushing people’s buttons, Agnes sets out to restore Sweetbriar Manor’s reputation as offering a “rewarding and enriching lifestyle” – or die trying.
Why do you write what you do?:
I dearly love the elderly and have volunteered in many assisted-living homes over the years. I have listened to their stories, and have laughed and cried with them. Seniors often have no one who will give them the attention and respect they are due. I enjoy being their voice whenever possible.
What are you currently working on?:
I am working through the editing process of Agnes Hopper’s book two: Agnes Hopper Stuns Sweetbriar Manor.
How does your work differ from other work in its genre?:
Agnes is a feisty, southern senior with a sense of humor and a sense of justice for herself and her friends.
How does your writing process work?:
I begin with character development. As soon as my characters become real to me, I place them in a critical situation and see what happens. Then I begin asking, “What if” questions and the story line evolves from there.
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