CatCrossing.com
Title
The Romance of Judith Stanton: Cat Crossing
Description
I grew up on a tobacco farm near Winston-Salem, North Carolina, before smoking was politically incorrect. Priming tobacco is the dirtiest, most thankless labor in the world. August morning dews leave the tobacco--and you--soaking wet. Then after the leaves dry off, a gummy tar covers your hands. But the work gave me a don't-stop-till-you-drop work ethic that carries over into everything I do.
In the evenings on the farm, my chore was driving the cows home. I rode my black-and-white pinto bareback with only a halter and baling twine for reins. When I told him stories he listened attentively, one ear toward the cows and one tuned back on me.
The desire to tell stories never left me. But in college and graduate school, I gleefully buried myself in one great novel after another... and grew too intimidated to write my own. As a college professor, I taught composition, feminist theory, and the great women writers. I also edited the 400 letters of Charlotte Smith, a very popular romance novelist in the 1790s.
Contact
- Peter B. Harkins
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- Chapel Hill NC
- US 27516
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