LOW COUNTRY BOOK CLUB

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Moving to the South Carolina Low Country? Want to meet new friends and explore a bunch of books with them? Reach out to the Low Country Book Club on Facebook.

According to their About information, “This is a group for readers who enjoy novels set in the South, in particular the South Carolina Lowcountry, coastal Georgia and North Carolina, and thereabouts, with a few other beach reads thrown in for good measure. The focus is on what members are reading, what they want to read, their favorite books, and places and items related to the setting.”

Tell them Tim at Armadillo Island sent you. (I may be pitching one of my novels over there one day.)

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Bad things happened, an entire run of them that shut me down, caused me to withdraw from everything except my inner self.

One afternoon, in a hammock, I took a photo of myself. Just my legs. But there was no one to send it to. No one to understand.

I needed a sidekick so I sketched an armadillo because they’re crusty on the outside but not within. I made him my butler. Crusoe’s manservant Friday.

We began interacting—my hammock photo speaking to that critter, that critter speaking back.There’s a folder of cartoons somewhere. For now there’s just this one. (LINK)

Eventually after that I began writing novels.

I’m still a hermit, marooned you might say, but leaving my shell more and more—my inner self seeking its freedom through writing.