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7 Random Facts about My First Book

Ever wish you could go behind the scenes with an author or a book? Voila!

1. The title came first.

Some of you may have read this fact first in several of the interviews that came out of my blog tour, during which I was asked several times how the story came to be. Well, I was driving down Central Avenue. I think I was on my way to college, but I don’t remember precisely. What I do remember is The Sound of Diamonds.

At the time, I had no idea what that meant. By the end of the summer, I had written a book explaining it.

7 Random Facts about My Book

2. My heroine wears glasses.

Because I’m near-sighted and conscious of that fact. And, yes, glasses had been invented by 1566 when my Gwyneth is wearing them. They were just extremely expensive. No problem. She’s of a respected English noble family; thus, she even has a back-up pair.

3. My hero has red hair.

I didn’t plan this. I’m not sure how this came to be, in fact. But I picture him like this, although admittedly that’s a black-and-white photo.

4. There’s a monk involved.

Gwyneth’s Catholic. Dirk’s Protestant. At a time where that was a very Big Deal. So to make things even more tense, a monk came strutting on stage and became a friend of both, upsetting the status quo in a good way.

5. My dad picked the name for one character.

He didn’t know it. We were talking about old movies and he started waxing eloquent about how he loves the name Ian, how it’s a proper English name, how it sounds awesome, how maybe he could have convinced Mom to name one of my brothers Ian (if we didn’t have the everyone’s-name-starts-with-R thing going). Thanks for the idea, Dad!

6. There may or may not be a food fight in this book.

Yep, a food fight. Chapter Thirty-Four is all I’m going to say. ;)

7. Yes, there is an actual sound of diamonds.

I hear it as the sparkly, falling-rain sounds at 0:07 of this song.

And there you have it, the actual sound of diamonds! Or is it? You just may have to read the book to find out. ;)

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  1. Linda Moffitt says

    August 19, 2017 at 6:29 am

    I Like that all of your siblings and you are R names. Are they all Double R’s. R.R.C’s ? (Unless C is your married Last Name )
    All my kiddos are ERM (E after Daddy, Eric (Who has NO middle name (but doesn’t like it) so I made that an R after both of Our Grandfathers who were both a Robert) So I Got a Eric Robert (who we call Robbie (We didn’t want a Jr.) An Elliott Ryan and an Emma RaeLynn

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    • Rachelle says

      August 22, 2017 at 6:54 pm

      My brothers and I do all have the same middle initial, at least we did until I got married and took my maiden name as my middle name. :) Sounds like you named your kids cleverly and thoughtfully! :)

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  2. Victoria Grace Howell says

    July 8, 2015 at 4:06 pm

    These are some cool facts! I haven’t heard of too many characters from that time period with glasses.

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    • Rachelle says

      July 9, 2015 at 5:56 pm

      Thanks, Victoria! I hadn’t either and I’m near-sighted, so I decided to explore. ;)

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  3. Sara Ella says

    June 27, 2015 at 2:49 pm

    This was such a fun post! Loved reading more about your story ;)

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    • Rachelle says

      June 29, 2015 at 6:03 pm

      Glad, Sara! :)

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  4. Joy C. says

    June 24, 2015 at 12:36 am

    These are wonderful trivia about your novel, Rachelle! I am really excited and interested in your novel, and look forward to reading it.

    I didn’t know back in the 1500s they used spectacles – wow, that is interesting!!

    Blessings,
    Joy

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    • Rachelle says

      June 25, 2015 at 3:30 pm

      Thanks, Joy!

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  5. Tarissa says

    June 23, 2015 at 10:39 pm

    You know, I think that picture is exactly how I pictured Dirk while reading your book. :)

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    • Rachelle says

      June 25, 2015 at 3:29 pm

      Seriously?! Mission accomplished. :)

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  6. jessiquawittman says

    June 23, 2015 at 7:26 pm

    My book needs to SHOW UP!!! Eargh!

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    • Rachelle says

      June 25, 2015 at 3:29 pm

      *giggles* Can’t wait to hear your thoughts on it, Jessiqua!

      Reply

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