Three-time Dove-award winner, Nan Corbitt Allen, will be joining me on Teen Talk Radio tonight, June 9th, to talk about her new fiction release, Watercolor Summer. Join us at 10pm EST, and call in with your questions to 877-864-4869 or tweet me at Nicole_ODell. The show will be available for download on iTunes following it’s airing.
If Kathleen could relive any moment, it would be the one in 1969. Not because of its sweet memories, but because
it changed her life forever…
Just thirteen, Kathleen feels isolated and alienated by her family. A victim of her parents’ lack of connection to each other and to her, she is dragged by her mother to another artist colony for the summer. There she meets the annoying Malcolm, a sixteen-year-old, mentally-challenged boy living with his caregiver Jeanette. Malcolm tries to befriend Kat, but his very presence annoys her to her core. Kat overhears Jeanette recounting the circumstances surrounding Malcolm’s arrival and abandonment at the colony, and Kat lets the coolness inside her melt just a little. As her heart figuratively begins to melt, Malcolm’s real congenital heart problems become a concern and finally lead to tragedy.
In Watercolor Summer, Nan Allen tells the story of the difficult summer when Kathleen learned how Malcolm and his colorful guardian were the examples of true and selfless love. She paints a story on the canvas of Kathleen’s life which was transformed by the Master Artist-a life once stained by pain and trial, that became a thing of beauty.
A beach-loving child of the 60’s, Nan Corbitt Allen has written Watercolor Summer for people of all ages, but especially those who were children, teenagers, or young adults during that great decade. The reader will almost be able to smell the salt air, feel sand between his toes, and hear the sounds of Sly and the Family Stone playing in the background as the flashback story unfolds.
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“Nan Allen is well known in Christian music circles (having garnered multiple Dove Award nominations and awards). Now, she is quickly making a name for herself in the fiction market. It’s easy to see why. Her books are beautifully written with a creative rhythm that can only come from Nan.”
-Martha Bolton, Emmy- and Dove-nominated writer Author of 84 books of humor and inspiration, including The Whole World’s Changing and I’m Too Hot to Care (Guideposts, 2011).
