Florence Witkop
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Florence was born in the city and has lived in the suburbs, small towns, the country and the wilderness, where she still lives with her husband and a cowardly cat named Smoke.
At various times in her career she’s been a confession writer, a copywriter, a ghost writer and an editor. She writes short stories, novellas and novels. Her work has been categorized as romance, science-fiction, fantasy, mainstream and eco-fiction, to name a few genres that it fits beautifully into. Florence’s stories begin as simple tales of contemporary life, often in small towns or the wilderness she knows so well. Where they go from there is what makes them special. There is always a strong sense of place. Sometimes they cross genres and contain paranormal, sci/fi, or fantasy elements. There is usually a romance and characters her readers like and would enjoy having as friends. |
Most of all, there is a story because what Florence does best is tell stories. Well plotted stories that carry the characters towards a logical conclusion that always includes a happy ending. Stories that shine light on the human condition while they celebrate the world we live in. Stories that her readers relate to and remember long after the reading is over.
She writes about people who are as normal as apple pie (most of them, anyway) who unexpectedly find themselves in the middle of situations ranging from the heartwarming through the difficult and all the way to the horrendous. But Florence’s characters choose to act instead of running away. In the process, they survive, thrive, overcome whatever obstacles large or small are thrown in front of them, and while they are at it, they find time to fall in love.
She writes about people who are as normal as apple pie (most of them, anyway) who unexpectedly find themselves in the middle of situations ranging from the heartwarming through the difficult and all the way to the horrendous. But Florence’s characters choose to act instead of running away. In the process, they survive, thrive, overcome whatever obstacles large or small are thrown in front of them, and while they are at it, they find time to fall in love.
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Spirit Legend
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fantasy (magical realism), Contemporary
Charlie, forester for Macallister Outdoors' corporate wilderness retreat takes Ian Macallister, the owner and her boss, to inspect a newly purchased tract of forest with a tiny lake in the center that fascinates Ian because of the legend of a spirit that resides in the lake. While there, they see strange lights and hear unearthly music but, before they can investigate further, a storm strands them and destroys the beaver dam that created the lake. Ian insists they stay and repair the dam, even though the corporate center also suffered damage, to save the spirit long enough for him to discover what it is. In their enforced closeness, Charlie fights her attraction to Ian because she refuses to become half of a workplace affair. After repairing the dam and leaving, they talk often about their experience and eventually return. During the return trip, Charlie's attraction to Ian grows still stronger. At the lake, they discover the spirit is real and is the only thing that can save Ian when he is scuba diving and becomes trapped beneath a submerged log.
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Wanted Sharpshooter
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contemporary
A rogue puma threatens Maggie's high-end wilderness horse training facility. She needs help and the only person capable of ending the threat is the new hire, former Army Ranger sharpshooter Maxwell Abrams and the only way he can save both horses and people is by taking charge and putting the entire place into lockdown.
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Wolf Legend
Fantasy (magical realism), Contemporary, New Adult
will be published January 6, 2014
Jane escorts Buck Portman, wolf researcher, to an island to check out the legend of dire wolves seen there. When a huge wolf charges through their camp and connects psychically with Jane and invites her to come for a visit to sort out this strange connection they share, she follows it (and Buck follows her) along a dry river bed and through a cave into another universe where her psychic connection to the alpha female of the wolf pack is all that keeps them alive as they get to know the individual wolves and the world they inhabit.
When they finally return to their world, they bring back an injured pup to be healed in spite of the fact that the pup, Snowball, will become a huge, dangerous predator in a world where it doesn't belong. As time passes, Jane's psychic connection is all that keeps the pup safe from the world and the world safe from the pup.
But the pup won't stay a pup forever and they face decisions regarding its future. Should they return a wolf that has been trained not to kill to its home world where it won't survive without killing? Even if they want to, can they keep a huge dire wolf in our world where it doesn't belong and where its true identity cannot be kept secret forever? Should they reveal the existence of another world that will surely be destroyed if they do?
And which of them should watch over the wolf pup if it stays in our world? Jane, who shares a mind link with it? Or Buck, who is a wolf researcher with the knowledge and credentials to assess its needs?
will be published January 6, 2014
Jane escorts Buck Portman, wolf researcher, to an island to check out the legend of dire wolves seen there. When a huge wolf charges through their camp and connects psychically with Jane and invites her to come for a visit to sort out this strange connection they share, she follows it (and Buck follows her) along a dry river bed and through a cave into another universe where her psychic connection to the alpha female of the wolf pack is all that keeps them alive as they get to know the individual wolves and the world they inhabit.
When they finally return to their world, they bring back an injured pup to be healed in spite of the fact that the pup, Snowball, will become a huge, dangerous predator in a world where it doesn't belong. As time passes, Jane's psychic connection is all that keeps the pup safe from the world and the world safe from the pup.
But the pup won't stay a pup forever and they face decisions regarding its future. Should they return a wolf that has been trained not to kill to its home world where it won't survive without killing? Even if they want to, can they keep a huge dire wolf in our world where it doesn't belong and where its true identity cannot be kept secret forever? Should they reveal the existence of another world that will surely be destroyed if they do?
And which of them should watch over the wolf pup if it stays in our world? Jane, who shares a mind link with it? Or Buck, who is a wolf researcher with the knowledge and credentials to assess its needs?
