Marie signed books from her Green Mountain and Butler, Vermont Series, including Can’t Buy Me Love and Here Comes the Sun. Readers came to meet Marie and see the inspiration for the Abbott family’s Green Mountain Country Store in Weston, VT at the Vermont Country Store.
Marie signed books at the Vermont Country Store
I wish to tell you how I have enjoyed your Gansett Island series. I read 20 books, and have ordered 21 and 22. Yhey helped me through a difficult endeavor. My mother died 5 years ago, and left me as executor of her estate. The biggest obstacle was my two bachelor brothers, who have not worked in 30 years, just lived with Mom and had her pay for everything. The house was a cluttered mess. I made 12 trips (26 weeks) over 4 years, making them get rid of stuff and fixing the house to sell. I sold last October. After a day of working, it was good to retreat and read your novels. I liked how the fictional McCarthy brothers spoke to each other, rather than how my real brothers speak to each other. I see you are writing a 23rd book.
With Gansett Island heavily dependent on tourism, I think you cannot overlook the impact of Covid 19 on vacationing. Wealthy people on yachts would be unaffected, but middle-class people would be unable to take summer rentals. The people of Gansett would help each other, but some tourists may act like “pandemic jerks”. Since your novels are set in the present, I think you should include the impact of this virus. 2020 is a unique year, and we cannot overlook that.–Sincerely, Maura O’Connell Knerr