M.C. Quince was born in Chicago, Illinois, and spent her childhood there during World War II. She raised her family in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, and attended creative writing classes at Harper College in Palatine, Illinois. She moved to Raleigh, North Carolina in 1987, and became a member of the NC writer’s network joining the Sertoma writer’s club. The club published its member’s short stories of which several of hers were included. In 1991, Chicago’s Italian American newspaper, the “Fra Noi,”published a short story she wrote. She began writing Street of Secrets in 1992, and set it aside. In 2009 she retired to Woodstock, Georgia, and began to write again. This is her first novel.
Many have heard of the Old Spanish Trail, but have misleading ideas of its use and course. Robert Hurst takes the reader on a 465 mile journey through the eyes of early Spaniards and others across the marshes, swamps, rivers, natural bridges, and highlands of Florida from St. Augustine to Pensacola.
Somewhere on the border between reality and fantasy lies the land of “What Ifs.” A little boy wakes from a busy dream to discover something has changed in his safe, familiar bedroom. A horn that looks exactly like the ones in the pattern of his bedspread is lying on the rug beside his bed. “What if,” he thinks, the cotton soldiers on his bedspread came alive and left it behind? A child’s fantasy. Or is it?
