Tammy Wright from Kilned at the Ceramic Shop, A Bradock mystery, is visiting Ascroft, eh? today to tell us a bit about how her whole life changed when her Aunt Clara needed her help.

Welcome, Tammy. I’ll turn the floor over to you –

My name is Tammy Wright and I am an author. I strongly believed in the path my life was going to take and as such, right out of high school, I moved to New York City where I knew a lot of the big publishing houses and agents were located.  I loved living there amongst the hustle and bustle of the big city. I could walk to anywhere I needed to go even though I did have a car but very rarely used it. The restaurants around my apartment were phenomenal and don’t get me started on the shopping that was available.

Five successful books later, I was well-off and enjoying my life. Then, I received a call that would change my way of thinking and my whole life. My Aunt Clara needed my help. Besides my dad who stayed in Texas near his family after he lost my mom, my aunt had no one else, no other family but me.

I packed up my apartment into storage pods and left New York for the small town of Braddock, Maine.

I’m only twenty-seven years old and knew my social life would suffer moving back home to a small town, but Aunt Clara needed me and I wasn’t going to let her down. Was I ever wrong about my social life bombing.

In high school, I had a massive crush on this guy named Zeke Peters. He had the most gorgeous emerald, green eyes but unfortunately they never looked my way as I wasn’t in the popular crowd. He was the captain of the football team and a big man on campus and I was a dorky, face in the book, always studying nerd. The many English and writing courses I took paid off in the end but caused my high school years to be pretty boring and uneventful.

When I first ran into Zeke, he was in uniform. He had stayed in Braddock and become one of the town’s deputies. His eyes still gleamed and he had got better looking with age. Little did I know we would be working side by side when my Aunt Clara disappeared without a trace.

Like everywhere else, Braddock has it’s share of bad apples. Unfortunately, I am head-strong and have a big mouth and say what I think which tends to get me in trouble. I don’t back down from anyone and locked horns immediately with two of those bad apples. I really need to stop and think before I react and speak. I guess I get that gene from my aunt as she is one feisty woman.

In a few short months, I stepped out from behind my computer screen to solve a real-life mystery and crime and set down permanent roots in Braddock. I figure I can write anywhere where there is the internet and I discovered I really missed the laid-back life of small-town living. Besides, in Braddock I can wear jeans and sneakers whereas in the city, I had to wear stuffy three-piece suits and high heels.

Small town living is not as ho hum as I remember it to be and I see many adventures heading my way during my new life in Braddock. I just hope the authors that I invite to my new home for future writer’s retreats will love the area as much as I do.

Yeah, sometimes you can go home and it is better than it ever was before.

Thank you for sharing this with us, Tammy, and good luck to you and your author, Donna Clancy, with Kilned at the Ceramic Shop, the latest book in the Bradock mystery series.

Readers can learn more about Tammy and her author, Donna Clancy by visiting the author’s website and. her Facebook and BookBub pages.

The book is available online at  Amazon 

About Donna Clancy: Donna lives on Cape Cod. She has three grown children and one rescue Papillion named Zumiez. She has a seven-book deal with Level Best Books for The Braddock Mysteries, writes The Trash to Treasure and Paint and Sip cozy series’ for Summer Prescott Books Publishing as well as self-publishing The Shipwreck Cafe and Jelly Shop Mysteries. She loves to write in various genres including suspense, thriller, romance, and YA.