Dear Christy,
Your debut novel Searching for Jimmy Page is forthcoming from Livingston Press. Tell us a bit more about the story. Did you include any autobiographical elements? How long did the whole project take from the initial idea to the final draft? Set largely in the winter of 1988, Searching for Jimmy Page, is about eighteen-year-old Luna Kane’s journey from her rural North Carolina home to London. Luna wants to track down Led Zeppelin’s enigmatic guitarist in the hope of solving an old mystery. Her deceased mother, a free-spirit with a passion for the Tarot and healing crystals and Jimmy Page, set the wheels in motion when Luna was a child: Is Jimmy Page her father? The owls trigger suppressed memories of her mother’s suicide and instigate Luna’s mission. Luna’s great-grandfather, a self-proclaimed faith healer, tells Luna he hears them crying the night of his own death. Her chance to meet Jimmy and learn the truth about her parentage arrives when she attends a guitar contest in London that Jimmy and Brian May of Queen judge. |
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