Salisbury pens first in kids mystery series
Lake Anna resident writes first in series of children's mystery books
By LUCIA ANDERSON
Date published: 4/11/2005
By LUCIA ANDERSON
Book relates the adventures of a young girl
Bailey Fish is finding mystery and adventure on the shores of Lake Anna.
Eleven-year-old Bailey, who has just moved to Louisa County from Florida, is the fictional heroine of Linda Salisbury's new children's book "The Wild Women of Lake Anna."
Bailey has come to Louisa to live with her grandmother while her mother is working in Central America. At first she doesn't like it because it's so different from what she's used to, but then she gets involved in solving a mystery, and starts to think she might enjoy her new life.
"Wild Women" is just the beginning of Bailey's adventures. Salisbury already has written the second in the series, "The No Sisters Sisters Club," although it isn't ready for the bookstores yet, and she is hard at work on a third volume.
Salisbury, like Bailey, recently moved to Louisa from Florida. She and her husband, Jim, live about a mile from the shores of Lake Anna. Their house is not far from Contrary Creek, which plays a part in Bailey's first adventure. The Salisburys drive into Mineral to pick up cat food, as did Bailey, and get ice cream cones at a nearby country store, just as Bailey does.
"I was taking notes, writing things down," Salisbury said, explaining her place descriptions in the book. "I use bits and pieces to make something new."
Right now she's waiting for April and May, the time frame for Bailey's next adventure, to see what flowers are out and what insects are around so that she can get those details right.
"I don't want to say there are daddy longlegs on the porch if they aren't here then," Salisbury said with a smile.
Spring was over when she moved to the area in June.
Salisbury dictated her first story when she was 4 years old.
"I taught myself to read. My grandmother used to send us boxes of books, and I couldn't wait around for somebody to read them to me," she said.
In her adult life, she has been writing for nearly 30 years, although this is her first children's book.
Date published: 4/11/2005
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