The Story behind Finding Emma

Finding Emma sounds the sort of novel that would grip me and not let go, every mother's nightmare yet, according to the reviews, still a tale of hope...


Megan sees her daughter Emma everywhere. She's the little girl standing in the supermarket, the child waiting for the swings at the playground, the girl with ice cream dripping down her face. But it's never Emma -- because Emma's been missing for two years. Unable to handle the constant heartache of all the false sightings, Megan's husband threatens to walk away unless Megan can agree to accept Emma is gone. Megan's life and marriage is crumbling all around her and she realizes she may have to do the thing she dreads most: move on. When Megan takes a photo of a little girl with an elderly couple at the town fair, she believes it to be her missing daughter. Unable to let go, she sets in motion a sequence of events that could destroy both family’s lives. 

Praise for Best-Selling "FINDING EMMA":
·         “Finding Emma is a heartbreaking story of a mother's journey of hope...captured by the emotion and depth of the characters from the beginning."
·         "Finding Emma may be the most heart-wrenching and heart-warming book I have ever read...Tense, emotional and realistic it will ring your emotions dry."
I'm delighted to welcome the author, Steena Holmes, as a guest on my blog today. I always love to find out why authors write their stories, and it seems she has the same interest. So here's her post on the story behind the novel, Finding Emma. Over to you Steena...


The Story Behind Finding Emma

I always love to find out why author’s write the books that I fell in love with. I love finding hidden gems that make the stories just that much more special to me.

I consider Finding Emma to be the story of my heart - for more reasons than one. I knew when I first started to think about the story that I needed it to be hard hitting to me as a woman, a mother, a wife. I wrote oodles of story ideas but nothing was really hitting home to me until I thought I had lost my youngest daughter. My heart stopped, it hurt to breathe and it took everything inside of me not to scream. The immediate relief I felt the moment I saw her was heart changing. I knew that I wanted to write this story and in the moment that I saw my daughter come around the bush in our front yard I knew exactly what would happen.

Another reason this is a story from my heart is that my daughters helped me to write it. The three sisters in my story - Hannah, Alexis and Emma - they are my daughters. They each helped me to name the characters, they helped to create scenes and were the first ones to let me know when they didn’t like a certain scene.

Throughout the journey of writing this story I grew to realize that I needed to cherish every single moment with my children. Each hug become memorable. Each time I said “I love you” I made sure I meant it and that it wasn’t rote. My heart also broke as I researched what it meant to lose a child and I realized I could never fully understand what it meant to have a child taken away like that. It’s a nightmare I pray I never have to experience and one I pray others can wake up from and have their children found.

Finding Emma was written from a mother’s heart to a mother’s heart and I hope, whether you are a parent or one who loves children, you will enjoy it!

Steena Holmes
www.steenaholmes.com

Come join the conversation on my Facebook Page:
http://www.facebook.com/SteenaHolmes.Author

Follow Steena on Twitter:
@SteenaHolmes

Amazon link to but the Kindle version of Finding Emma:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007KQHBEU/?tag=cr0229-20

Amazon link to buy the printed copy of Finding Emma:
http://www.amazon.com/Finding-Emma-Steena-Holmes/dp/0987856863/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1342558895&sr=1-1&keywords=finding+emma


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

How to Connect those Connections

Taken from a talk I gave on Sunday at the Writers' Mill. This is a very low-level approach to getting connected, from one beginner to another... Internet Writing, Marketing and Networking If you’ve got an email address you’re on the internet. If you’ve got a book out or an article in a magazine, you’re into marketing. If you’ve got friends, you’re networking. And if you use Google, you can do almost anything. Google Google is your friend. Google “how to join facebook” “How to join goodreads” “How to join Twitter” etc… Google “facebook badges” “blogger widgets” etc… to spice up your pages. Anything you want to know, a nice simple question to google will almost certainly tell you. But keep safe . Don’t just click on the first link you see. Make sure it looks vaguely genuine. “F*@!book.com/badges” might take you somewhere you don’t want your computer to go. “Facebook.com/badges” tells you all about badges. Why would you want to join all these interne
Read more

Sliding a final achievement under the wire...

The year's almost over and I really can't believe it. Where did the time go? I've been reading my friends' resolution lists posted online, and feeling bad about my lack thereof - of lists I mean; I have plenty more resolutions than I need. Get published. Get published. That seems to be my constant refrain, but not an aim I can claim to have much control over. Last year I tried amending it to "submit," and I think I managed it. At least, I was managing until summer. But then it was Christmas and New Year's Eve. Where did the time go? Still, I am sliding one final achievement under the wire of '09. I took the Poetic Asides November challenge, sometime in those missing months, and wrote a poem a day for 30 days. But then you have to organize a collection of 10-20 poems to complete the task. I finished today. (Luckily dinner was easy to make.) And now I have a collection of 20 poems, entitled Patriot Son. All I have to do is email it and I can claim to ha
Read more

BLOG TOUR: Name that character, with Dawn Colclasure

Image
Author Dawn Colclasure is hosting my Flower Child Blog Tour today with a post on the parallel joys of math and writing http://dawncolclasureblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/mathematical-writer-guest-blog-post-by.html . Meanwhile I'm delighted to host Dawn here in yet another intersecting blog tour. About the author:  Dawn Colclasure is a writer who lives in Oregon. Her articles, essays, poems and short stories have appeared in several newspapers, anthologies, magazines and E-zines. She is the author of seven books, among them BURNING THE MIDNIGHT OIL: How We Survive as Writing Parents ; 365 TIPS FOR WRITERS: Inspiration, Writing Prompts and Beat The Block Tips to Turbo Charge Your Creativity ; Love is Like a Rainbow: Poems of Love and Devotion and the children’s book The Yellow Rose . She is co-author of the book Totally Scared: The Complete Book on Haunted Houses . Her dark fantasy novel, Shadow of Samhain , is due out in Winter 2011. Her Web site is at http://dmcwriter.tripod.c
Read more