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Big Love: Previously available in Coming Home, a collection of novellas with a theme of tiny houses, Big Love is now available only as a standalone novella–with a hilarious new ending! Purchase.
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Read readers ravings! “”I had fun reading … Big Love! Great characters, lots of laughs, plus insight into tiny houses. Loved the romance in this book!” (Jen Dodrill on Amazon.)
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Background on Big Love and How It Came To Be
This book caught me a bit by surprise. In so many ways.
But once I started working on it, it quickly lodged in my heart. (“Big Love” was previously published in a novella collection titled “Coming Home.” The current version has a new epilogue that hilariously moves the characters forward.)
When I decided to write this book, my wife and I had just finished touring the Tiny House Road Show (photos below) when it stopped here in Indianapolis. On a subsequent weekend trip to Cincinnati, we brainstormed a couple ideas about how the novella could be approached.
What if?
What if the man in the story was a writer for an architectural journal who thought himself too sophisticated to do a story on tiny houses? What if the woman was the president of a company building tiny houses with the idea to use the proceeds to battle homelessness? Then, what if both of these people had experienced homelessness in different forms and it had drastically affected their lives, but in different, opposite ways?
But I still couldn’t seem to get the story started. One day, I’m driving around the Northside of Indianapolis and I spot a street sign for Timberly Drive and the voice of my female character just pops into my mind and starts talking.
I’m just going to put it out there. My name’s Timberly. Yeah, Timberly. Get over it. I did long ago, okay? What can a girl say? My father, the dealmaker, cut what he called a “win-win” with my mother. Trouble is, there were three people in the deal and only two of them “won-won.”
From there the story began to unfold. Timberly, who prefers to be called Berly, knows her mind and her place in this world. A theme paragraph emerged: Homelessness expanded her world and constricted his. Now she needs his help, but he only remembers the pain. Can they find big love in a tiny house?
Want to read my novella? It’s available on Amazon in ebook and in print!
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