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Month: July 2015

Shanty Gold’s First Review

July 23, 2015August 8, 2015 Jeanne Charters 2 Comments Blog

On Sunday at Mass, a retired doctor approached me and had finished reading Shanty Gold  and wanted to discuss casting the movie. Fun!! Also, in setting up readings around the country, I met by phone a gentleman named John Carswell. I will be reading for his group in September. He and his wife both read […]

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Shanty Gold, on your Nook or Kindle

July 16, 2015July 9, 2015 Jeanne Charters Leave a comment Blog

  By the time you read this, Shanty Gold should be published on every “e” format in the world.   The print book will take an extra month.   I had no idea how labor intensive this whole publishing business was going to be. After years of writing, editing, querying agents, and rewrites, I figured […]

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Shanty Gold is Out!!

July 16, 2015July 16, 2015 Jeanne Charters Leave a comment Blog

Shanty Gold is out!   It’s official. I looked on my Nook last night, and there it was… Shanty Gold by Jeanne Charters.   I can’t believe it’s really published.   Well, of course, I believe it. What else have I been laboring over for the past six years? But it does feel pretty surreal.. […]

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Racism: The Irish and the Negroes

July 12, 2015July 9, 2015 Jeanne Charters Leave a comment Blog

In Shanty Gold, Kamua Okafor, the African slave boy who saves Mary Boland’s life on the coffin ship, gets a job sooner than Mary after they arrive in Boston.   Frankly, that pisses Mary off a lot. What’s wrong with the Irish, she muses angrily.   How did Kamua do it? Well, as a neophyte […]

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Galley Labor

July 9, 2015June 30, 2015 Jeanne Charters Leave a comment Blog

I am buried right now in galleys. No, not boats or nautical kitchens. Literary galleys.   You see, once you’ve written the book, edited the book, re-edited the book fourteen times, had an agent edit the book, had an editor edit the book, and finally, after a proofreader does a final edit of the book, […]

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A Hero Named Okafor

July 5, 2015June 30, 2015 Jeanne Charters Leave a comment Blog

When I was looking for the perfect name for the African slave boy who would become Mary Boland’s soul brother, I found Okafor on an African website.   It felt right. And so he was born. Kamua Okafor. I nearly made the greatest mistake in my writing life by allowing him to join the sailors […]

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Ahhh, the Irish!

July 1, 2015June 23, 2015 Jeanne Charters Leave a comment Blog

It was raining hard and a big puddle had formed in front of the little Irish pub. An old man stood beside the puddle holding a stick with a string on the end and jiggled it up and down in the water. A curious gentleman asked what he was doing. ‘Fishing’, replied the old man. […]

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