Artist Spotlight: Author Georgia Day
Log: Teetering between April and May Location: Between the Red Desert and the Bowery Stage
The hand begets the pen and the pen begets the paper. Much like the artist that began drawing at an early age, Author Georgia Day began writing stories. In an earlier time, she shared her compositions with close friends and family when college and a career impeded her journey. Georgia persevered.
The great element Time reignited her flame while a stressful period in her life generated a few unsettling dreams. Multiple dreams visited her and after one in particular shook her from the bed, Georgia immediately recorded it. Thus came the framework for, “Of Sand and Bone.”
Spending weekend mornings huddled inside a coffee shop over her computer, while occasionally looking like a crazy person voicing the words of the novel’s dialogue, Georgia endured. Missing a few family obligations, a few sporting events, some life events, the novel began taking shape.
Nearing the novel’s completion, Georgia sought refuse to solidify the story’s conclusion. She took repose in February 2021 in the Texas gulf resort town of Port Aransas. Little did she or any of us realize how severely winter storm Uri hammered the state.
Power shut down. Uri closed everything. Georgia Day sat huddled inside a beach cabin - listening. The audibly disturbing ferocity of a winter storm’s wind starkly contrasted the bubbly playful beach getaway. But she listened closely. She grew to immerse, embrace, and within, an awakening emerged. Georgia arrived home with the story’s resolution.
“Of Sand and Bone,” takes readers into a female-driven desert adventure moving between remote sites, inside cityscapes and over landscapes accounting experiences living on danger’s edge. Sometimes feeling post-apocalyptic, sometimes modern day, we journey along with two principal characters in a vaguely recognizable setting where the author then cleverly shifts into an upending domain drawn from nighttime dreamscapes. Characters delicately move between the imbalance of light and darkness while exploring myths and legends and at times, feels like an epic. But please, don’t think this as a feminist story. Far from it. It’s an adventure story where seasoned readers will easily empathize with these characters in this craftily written 235-page novel.
On May 4th, Georgia Day along with many other area authors will set a tabletop at the 6th annual Winnsboro Festival of Books. This Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., visitors get to mingle with authors and share their own writing process experiences while the stage features poets from the Fort Worth Poetry Society, interactive literacy programs, workshops, hand-on children's stuff and a visit from a book character named Froggy. There’s a great little taco shop on the corner so don’t feel obligated to stick around for Froggy… unless you’re Hedy, no that’s Hedley - Hedley Lamarr.
It all happens this weekend beneath the Bowery Stage in Winnsboro.
Another adventure in the life of a traveling artist.
Author Georgia Day
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Winnsboro Festival of Books