Judith Falloon-Reid's Blog

Have you ever prayed for success and then worried about what you will do with it once you get it? Happens all the time I'm told!

It has been a hectic period since the release of The Silent Stones. The book launches and book parties have begun. The questioning of my motives have led to some very heated and interesting discussions as friends who devoured The Silent Stones in rapid read mode, argue over the villains and heroes. Very often they are one and the same y'know.

I'm loving though. It's a good feeling to write a story that can evoke such emotions and stir such controversy.

I think I've found a path!!!

Hope you too will buy and enjoy The Silent Stones!!!The Silent StonesJudith Falloon-Reid

 FINALLY the STONES will SPEAK!
The look of delight.
Oh Yea Baby!!Finally...ah yes finally, I am holding in my hands the first copy of The Silent Stones . It has been a long haul from the first words on paper to this point. By the time I sent the file to the printers I was exhausted, elated, anxious, impatient and totally out of my mind.  I enjoyed every minute of it. The twists and turns as the story took me where it wanted to go and the characters that appeared out of nowhere stunned me with their actions.
I started writing novels five years ago and after weaving my life and the lives of my friends into my first two novels, Here's a Hundred Dollars...Buy Yourself a Life! and Are Mirrors Cleaner in Paradise?, I found myself writing a 100% fictional novel about a house I thought I knew. 
And I say I thought I knew because when my friend called to tell me that he had inherited his family home, a 200-year old house in Stewart Town, Trelawny, Jamaica, I thought 'I remember that house!" I vividly remembered tales told by his sisters of old "slave shackles" they found in the dungeon. Now I'm not sure if I'm making up the memory or it was real but that's the memory I have.

I remembered the lovely balcony adorned with beautiful fretwork, overlooking the main street. Large stone columns and creaky wooden floors. "I can only imagine what those walls would say, if they could talk," I said to him. And then my overactive imagination took over. Voila! The moment of conception of The Silent Stones.  
I have carried that baby to full term now and to see her (it really but its sounds strange to refer to a baby as it and its equally strange to refer to a book as her) open her eyes to the world today when as I look on with nothing short of total admiration. This is by far the best book I have ever written and if I must say so myself, I’m a darn good writer!!! Two award-winning films later and at the risk of breaking my arm, I think I can pat myself on the back a little.

Seriously though, I am overjoyed with The Silent Stones . It has a little bit of everything. Drama, mystery, unique characters, heroes, Jamaican history, unexpected twists and surprises galore. There's love, hate, disfunction and redemption. Overall, I love this book. I would have loved it even if I didn’t write it. I honestly think its that good.
I hope you will too. 
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