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INTRO TO STATEN BAY 3
For fans of my Staten Bay Trilogy, I’m posting on my Web site the final installment, book 3, After Doll.
Free! read online here
Little Doll, granddaughter of the original Just Doll, in book one of the trilogy, now finds herself in old age having to raise her own granddaughter, Sara Ann—an adolescent mess. Doll’s only living son, Herman—“a Herman-type for real and not Doll’s fault”—leaves Sara Ann with his mother after his wife is killed in an automobile accident. Well, that’s the story he tells his daughter; one of many conflicts between him and his mother, his cowardice and lies.
Flashing back on Doll’s life between the end of book 2 and the beginning of book 3, I fill in the blanks—what happened after Doll sets the suffering prisoners free from the Jasper jail on the coldest night in North Florida history? Doll falls heir to Staten Bay Plantation, after First Doll’s death, with all its problems, promises and ghosts. Her job—other than ghost-slayer—is to groom her sassy, baiting granddaughter to be the next heir and owner of Staten Bay Plantation. Not an easy task given the fact that Sara Ann shows little early interest or inclination.
And then there’s the rumor of buried gold—truth or myth?--to contend with...
Click here to download PDF version of entire novel.
Down load Adobe reader for free here
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Hello, thanks for stopping by.
A tribute to Ontario Review and Ray Smith
Those who know me well know that I’m a loyal reader of literary journals and that I spend a lot of time writing and sending out my short stories to them. My absolute favorite is, and has been, the Ontario Review. Editor Ray Smith, of Princeton, NJ, has regularly published my stories since 1994. Now, following his death in February of this year, his wife, famous author, Joyce Carol Oates, will be closing up shop. As it should be—that was Ray Smith’s shop and he tended it well for many decades (see www.Ontarioreview.com for more detail). He was one of the few people I know who still answered his phone and always with that smooth, gentle voice. Ray Smith loved Georgia peaches, and I once sent him some; I wish I’d done that more often. He was loyal and helpful to his writers. He and Joyce didn’t need to have children; they had us—their regular contributors to Ontario Review.
In 1994, the first copy with one of my stories was hand-delivered by Joyce Carol Oates, who was speaking at the University of Florida. I waited in line to speak to her and when my turn came and I told her my name, she said, “Oh, Janice,” and pulled this pretty pink journal out of her smart black purse. I could hardly sleep that night for recalling, “Oh, Janice.” Somebody famous had just touched me with her magic wand. That’s one reason I call her my fairy-godmother.
I went on to publish my first story collection, Going Through the Change, at Ontario. And being newly published and euphoric, I would often call Ray and talk. He guided me through the publishing process with his signature patience, and I know he must have been too busy to talk. But he never seemed busy. I could not picture him hurrying around like everybody else—me included. Now, almost fifteen years later, after so many of my published novels have gone out of print, my story collection remains on Ontario’s selected backlist of books.
I will miss Ontario Review and Ray Smith, and I know other authors must feel the same way. But none so much as his wife; I cannot think one of their names without connecting it with the other. Thank you, Joyce, for sharing Ray with his authors.
Janice Daugharty
Note: don’t forget to look at my free online novels Staten Bay II and now also Staten Bay III for free, also free new short stories and essays available now. Thank you, Janice Daugharty
Janice Daugharty's novel, EARL IN THE YELLOW SHIRT, 1997, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction by her editor Larry Ashmead at HarperCollins Publishers
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