A Story in the Making

Writing my story in the setting I used, on my brother Stephen’s farm in the Wallingat Forest, north of Newcastle, NSW.

I suppose in writing I am trying to make sense of my own life as I dip into the lives of others.

To undertake the journey of a novel is at least a two year love affair for me with the idea, the characters, the settings and the task of making my words sing, that is to say, to serve my story in the best possible way.

Here’s a glimpse of the ‘evolution’ of my very first young adult novel Thunderwith.

Here’s where first notes began on work paper
(in my lunchtime of course)

libby hathorn notes-handwrittenThunderwith

As the novel builds other versions are written and self corrected

libby hathorn notes-First corrections

At ‘pages’ stage after proof reading and copy editing; the last chance to make corrections.
libby hathorn notes-Final markups

And then there is the book itself complete with hard cover and paperback version as well.

thunderwidth-various-covers

Thunderwith has had several covers over the years and there are the covers of other language versions too.

The story behind the story of how it became a movie script and a movie produced by Hallmark Hall of Fame can be found in the latest publication of Thunderwith.