Winifred Elze

for Miranda

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I write fiction: novels mostly, but also some short stories. They're an eclectic lot, because I like to read a variety of genres. I write because some character has taken up residence in my head and won't go away until I tell her story; or because something in the world gets my attention in a "What if..." way. I write to find out what will happen, because I would like to read this story and it won't exist until I write it. And since I like to read a variety of genres, I also write in a variety of genres.
Winifred Elze

The character Tilde Becker has taken up residence in my head and won't go away until I tell her story. Nine when we first meet her in "Tilde," she's a bipolar artist coming of age during the Great Depression.

In "If Only," the second book of the Tilde series, she's a high school graduate with studio space in Greenwich Village, but no paying job. She loves painting, and a boy named Billy. She wants a career in the art world, and a home of her own, and children. Can she have it all in 1934, during the Great Depression and before the women's rights movement?

If only...

 

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