by Carolyn Bass | Nov 27, 2024 | Fiction, Fiction Excerpts, Ovations
Maybe other kids slept in on Thanksgiving morning, relishing the day off from school and looking forward to playing with family and friends as the grown-ups cooked, played cards, or watched football on TV. Other kids might have turned over in their beds and dreamed...
by Carolyn Bass | Aug 24, 2021 | Fiction, Fiction Excerpts, Ovations
It’s 1967 and the young protagonist in my WIP gets a visit from her school principal who happens to be black. In those days the polite way of referring to a person of African heritage was to call them “colored.” While this scene is completely...
