For the first time, my publisher has allowed me to give you a sneak peek of chapter 3 of my bestselling novel Whale Song, a novel that author New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice called "a compelling story of love and family and the mysteries of the human heart".
Chapter three
I WHIRLED AROUND and saw a girl about my age treading water near the raft. She had black hair braided into two long plaits and dark eyes that stared at me curiously.
“What do you mean ‘your brother’?” I asked when my voice had returned from the pit of my stomach.
The girl grinned. “He comes back once in a while. To visit.”
She swam toward the raft, climbed up and plopped down cross-legged in front of me.
“I’m Goldie,” she said. “Goldie Dixon. What’s your name?”
She was smaller than I was, and her skin was darker.
“Sarah Richardson,” I replied shyly.
I glanced beyond the edge of the raft, wondering if I’d catch a glimpse of her brother.
“Did you see his fluke?” Goldie asked, her face beaming.
Fluke? Of course…
I knew what the black thing was. It was a whale’s tail, its fluke. My father had shown me photos of whales from his marine biology class. Some pictures showed the whales’ flukes or tails, some showed whales spouting water and one even caught a whale as it breached and rose almost completely out of the ocean.
“So where’s your brother?” I asked, looking around the raft.
“He’s dead.”
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Read chapters 1 and 2 first.
Today I am visiting Climate of our Future, a wonderful site that is dedicated to informing and education people on all aspects of our envirnment and how it affects our world.When Climate of our Future first asked to host me on my ‘Touring the World’ virtual book tour, I hesitated. Not because I don’t like the site (I DO!), but because I was trying to think of a way to segue their theme into Whale Song, writing or my other suspense novels. I’ll admit, it was a challenge at first. However, anyone who knows me knows that I don’t shy away from challenges.
So today’s topic is Global Warming. But a different kind of ‘global warming.’ One of racial and cultural acceptance. It really is time that we (as in those living on Earth) embrace each other in tolerance, understanding and acceptance. We spend so much time and energy fighting each other in various wars, murdering our fellow man, hating people of different race, skin color or religion, and then we teach this to the next generation so that they can continue our legacy. Hatred is pure energy and that energy has to go somewhere. Some people spend their entire lives focused on hating … and it’s that energy that grows within them and becomes pure evil.
What we need is a wake up call...
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