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Pam Ripling
| “I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else,” Pam Ripling asserts, when asked about her life in Southern California, where she’s lived since she was two. She cites the people, the weather and the beach as factors in her love affair with the West coast. Family, too, provides an anchor to the area, which she describes as a melting pot of humanity, “rich with characters and plots just waiting to be written.” While romantic mystery and suspense are her favorites, Pam, who also writes as Anne Carter, has written middle grade mysteries, literary shorts, poetry and non-fiction. Long a lighthouse fanatic, it was only a matter of time before her obsessions intersected and a series of lighthouse novels emerged. Paranormal elements abound in both POINT SURRENDER and CAPE SEDUCTION, where mystery, romance and troubled ghosts provide hauntingly entertaining tales set in California lighthouses. When she is not writing, editing or promoting, Pam enjoys time with her husband and children, two happy dogs and a psychotic cat. She is a skilled photo editor and loves restoring old snapshots and creating digital slideshows. Watch for the third paranormal lighthouse mystery, ANGEL'S GATE, coming soon! For more about Pam Ripling/Anne Carter and to read excerpts, visit www. BeaconStreetBooks.com or write AnneCarter@BeaconStreetBooks.com. |
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There is nothing quite like the feeling of climbing that spiraling nautilus staircase inside a towering lighthouse. Is the echo you hear from your own shoes as you ascend the aging iron steps, or is the resonance a remnant of days gone by, the sounds trapped forever inside the stairwell, bouncing from the rounded walls for eternity?
POINT SURRENDER, my newest release from Echelon Press, is about a lighthouse with a past. Its last keeper died there, leaving behind a journal describing his joys, his fears and his turbulent last years. What it does not explain is why he died, or what became of his missing family. As Point Surrender’s newest, if reluctant, caretaker, Amy Winslow is bound and determined to find out just what happened inside the decaying white beacon. Of course, there are those who would just as soon she didn’t. Including the handsome stranger who’s offered to help with her restoration project.
What made this romantic mystery especially fun to write was the availability of a lighthouse for me to stay in. For 3 days and nights, I was able to climb those steps, and sit out on the gallery to watch the ferries come and go and the sailboats passing through the channel. While Port Townsend’s Dimick Lighthouse is actually a replica built to resemble the popular Mukilteo Light in Seattle, it’s a real lighthouse, nonetheless, and provided a much needed shot in the arm for this writer. Unlike Point Surrender, there are no ghosts living at Dimick Lighthouse; but for a few days one summer, the muse was definitely in residence.
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