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A Novel Approach to Writing
Written By: Jenny King | Issue: 2017/11 - November
What started as a personal challenge has turned into a grand adventure for local author, Jeannie Chambers. Her first published novel, “Tunnel of Time,” is scheduled to be released December 1.
Jeannie said she has always wanted to write and completed a course through the Institute of Children’s Literature in 1986 when her children were young. In 2011, she completed her first NaNoWriMo challenge. November is National Novel Writing Month, and writers are tasked with writing 50,000 words. She met that deadline, and again in 2012. She challenged herself once again in 2013. “This time,” she says, “I was able to type ‘The End’ and now it’s about to
be published!”
Jeannie’s novel is for middle grade students and is a tale of time travel. It’s the story of three sisters, Gracie, Lizzie, and Reba Dee and is loosely based on her three oldest granddaughters.
The sisters travel back in time and meet many notable characters. While there are educational aspects to the book, her goals were to make it something fun to read.
“I’ve always been interested in time travel so I could go back and talk with people in the past,” she says. “To make this an entertaining book, I included some little-known facts that I found interesting.”
She said her goal was to write a book for middle grades that would make them want to find out more about the people she included, like Helen Keller, Alexander Graham Bell, Elias Howe, and George
Washington Carver.
“I want them to have enough curiosity, after reading the book, to do their own research,” she says.
Chambers is very active in the Highlands Writers Group, which meets at The Hudson Library, and you can find her work in their anthology, “Highlands Writers: A Collection of Work from the Highlands Writers Group,” as well as The Laurel Magazine and The Highlands Newspaper.
If you’re interested in purchasing “Tunnel of Time,” stop by the Chambers Realty office on North Fifth Street in Highlands or send Jeannie an email at [email protected], or visit her website,
jeanniechambers.com.
Remember those other efforts with NaNoWriMo? Well, Jeannie is editing one of those stories, and it will soon become her second novel.
