About Tess
Thank you for visiting my website. I published Respect and Respectability: Susan Price at Mansfield Park, in 2019, and since then I have been working on The Neston Novels Series. The first novel in the series, Neston, was released in 2023. the second, The Dragon of Neston, in 2024, and the third, The Oasis of Neston, and the prequel, Back in the Day, are in development, with the goal of publishing both in 2025.
Neston has been long in the making. When I was about ten years old, some friends of my parents joined my family for a summer picnic, and in the course of the day, their son swam across the lake and back. It impressed me. Years later, I wanted to write a story about it, but the swim alone wasn’t sufficient. It needed a wider context, a deeper motivation.
Flash forward over fifty years, when I found the story I wanted to tell: the coming-of-age spiritual biography of a girl during the 1960s–and the swimmer who crosses paths with her.
The Neston Novels Series is the long story of their journey. Each novel draws on many other memories and personal experiences from those turbulent times. The era ushered in unprecedented changes, including alterations to the landscape of Vermont, where I have lived for most of my life. Place, and the impacts upon it, play as much a role as the characters do in the novels.
I hold an M.A. in English and taught college expository writing for a decade before applying my skills in business settings. Now retired, my time is spent writing The Neston Novels Series.
I am an official Goodreads author. Visit my Goodreads page, where you can see what I have read so far in my 2024 Reading Challenge, as well as my ratings and brief reviews of books.
I am a member of Faith, Hope, & Love Christian Writers, which upholds fiction written from a Christian worldview. My desire is that everyone from young adult and up in age will enjoy clean reading as inspiring as it is entertaining.
