Mercer University Press will be publishing Swimming with Serpents. It will be released in the Fall of 2012.
 

I researched Swimming with Serpents for about 15 years before actually sitting down to write the novel. 

Lyssa Rendel in SWIMMING WITH SERPENTS gets swept up in the Creek Indian War, a critical event in history.  She must use her wits to survive during one of the most challenging times of our country.  This book is timely in that the 200^th anniversary of the Creek Indian War will occur in 2013.

 SWIMMING WITH SERPENTS is a fast paced historical romance that follows the dramatic histories of Cade Kincaid and Alyssa Rendell and the Fort Mims Massacre of August 30, 1813 when five hundred American lives were lost in this initial engagement of the Red Stick War. Like all romances, SWIMMING WITH SERPENTS incorporates drama, sexual tension and great feeling for the true human tragedy of the day.

 As a native Alabamian with an ancestor who was a “friend and neighbor” of Andrew Jackson who was invited by him to come and handle the cattle Jackson anticipated that he would need in order to fight the Spanish who threatened our infant nation in West Florida, I became intrigued by the story of the Indians involved in this massacre, both outside and inside the fort where the massacre occurred. Ironically, that ancestor was married to a woman who was half-sister to the chief of the Cherokee and also had Chickasaw lineage. The voices of those people involved cried out to me to have their story told.  Swimming with Serpents is the result of about 15 years of research on this era of history about which so little has been written.  Having grown up loving historical novels, it seemed best to tell their tale through historical fiction.  The time and place become immediate and take on life.  The reader gets involved in the event rather than just learning about the event, people and place.

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Welcome!

I have a brand new gig! 

Other than being wife (of 42 years), mother (Cecily, Drew, Brooke), grandmother (Lily, Megan and George), chief cook and bottle washer, laundress, daughter of an elderly parent, genealogist, sometime secretary for my attorney husband, gardener, teacher and sometime adjunct history professor, freelance writer, short story writer, karaoke singer, and webmaster for Southern-style.com (this website), I now also write novels.

Is that a hoot!?!

I have decided that writing is the easy part. Taking the story from pen to publisher is a whole other story. 

However, I remain excited about the new venture and hope you will eventually enjoy my books (when they get published) and the ones to come. 

Partyin' on the Plantation is the first of a planned series of mysteries I call my Sassy Southern Mysteries. Dabney, Sophie, Faye Lynne, Miss Ruby, Florence, Police Chief Carrow Dee Gunther, Bernice, Estrellita, Julio and the rest of the fictional Wayfarer contingent will embark on many new adventures/misadventures in the series of books ahead. 

In Swimming with Serpents, Lyssa and Cade Kincaid have their adventure in the Creek War told.

Life is wonderful in the boomer years when there's time to pursue those interests that once had to be put on the back burner.  Each day could bring something new and exciting. 

Partyin' on the Plantation: stories and cookbook is in the works.  

I love to hear from my visitors.  Write me at sharmanramsey@gmail.com.

 

Short Stories
Baby Hunt
Biddie's Burden
Jean Ann
Jim Bob
John Henry
Magic Pockets
I Remember Mammy
Shadow Waltz
The Ginny Story

Friends in the Writing World. Links to their websites: 

Cassandra King

Michael Morris

Janis Owens

Cate Noble

Linda Busby Parker

Jude Kessler

Mike Coe