The Wellspring (Kaitlyn and the Highlander #12) - Diana Knightley Page 0,118
Christine Weeks, Carolyn Carter, Elaine Brown, Tracy Dillon Drew, Tess Irish, Rhonda House, Jenny Thomas, Tracey Blevins Garcia, Dorothy Chafin Hobbs, Katie McKibben, Krystal Roberts, Crislee Anderson Moreno, Lisa D Yasko, Maxine Sorokin-Altmann, Fleur Garmonsway, Sandra Louise Moore, Lisa Kain, Jackie Briggs, Kim Stevens, Marlene Villardi, Samantha Aishman Springs, Diana Rhodes, Enza Ciaccia, Linda Jackson, Darlene Booth, Emily Theresa Gosche-Lowden, Cindy Wasson, Cynthia Tyler, Jacque Jean, Maria Sidoli, Lori Flemming, Barrie Dunn Minadeo-Knutson, Teresa Lynn Potter, Amanda Johnson, Glenda Lucas, Niccy Osborne, Kassie Shook, Carla Mendoza, Michelle Lynn Cochran, Carol Warner Barnes, Charlene Clement, Liza Gee, Sam Johnson, Linda Quinlan, Christine Ann, Nannette Y. Thompson-Wiley, Shannon McNamara Sellstrom, Reney Lorditch, Shannon Victoria Fleckenstein,
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When I write a first draft I write ???? Whenever I get to a spot that needs further research, or if there is a detail I can’t remember from an earlier book. I went on FB live and had a crew of readers help me research what I was missing in this first draft.
Thank you Christine Anne and Christine Todd Champeaux for reminding me of the name of Magnus’s castle: Caisteal Morag. For telling me how many crates were in the vault in book 8: five. And for finding where I listed how many vessels there were: 23, (book 6, page 156)
Thank you Katie Eilert Ekhom for reminding me of this date: November 24, 2419
Thank you to Ginger Duke for telling me that James was there first night back. (A small detail, but important.)
Thank you Azucena Uctum for telling me how the door worked at the end of the tunnel... no lock.
Thank you to Tess Irish, Lori Balise, Gloria Elena Ruiz-Rosado, Anna Spain, Leah Krakowski, Carol Wossidio Leslie, Alison Caudle, Cat Rosenaufryman, Angelique Mahfood, Katie McComas, Leah Krakowski, Michelle Lynn Cochran, Ginger Duke, shall Rhea, Deena McKinley, Saaima Saiyed, Kelly Walsh, Stacey Eddings, Tara Luffy Moore, and Jane Buttram for weighing in.
Sorry if I missed your suggestion, but thank you all so much for your help.
And when I ask ‘research questions’ you give such great answers…
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I asked:
Our friends have a big full size military style helicopter from the future-future and its crash-landed in Florida on the beach.
Where do they take it, how do they hide it?
I got so many great answers, but ultimately I picked 1948 Area 51 because the idea was fun.
Thank you April Paytas Graham, Shannon Davis Perez, Natalie Richardson-Legere, Julie Meeks, Melissa Crockett, Tara Luffy Moore, Anna Spain, Rachael Temaat, Sandy Hambrick, Deb Dewey, Shelley M, Sarah Lowe, Kristen Schoenmann De Haan, Christy Neff, and Clarissa Hart for suggesting it.
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I asked:
What age does Magnus put his bairn on the back of a horse? With him? What age does a bairn ride in front or behind? How long could a bairn ride?
I got so many great suggestions and advice. Thank you Samantha Aishman Springs, Amy Brautigam, Linda West, Alysa Isenhower Hill, Melissa Crockett, Samantha Peter, Amie Rashé Conrad, Amanda Johnson, Danielle DeMarco Smith, Anna Spain, Alysa Isenhower Hill, Candace Stuart-Findlay, Caroline Twyford, Karen Scott, Fleur Garmonsway, Kristen Schoenmann De Haan, Teresa Lynn Potter, Becky Elaine Harper, Joann Splonskowski, Donna Rice, Deanna Freng, Tori Bourne, and Jessica Pickle for your thoughts on the matter.
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And I asked what kind of meal Hayley and Katie would cook for the gang and also what kind of new car would Kaitlyn and Magnus buy now. Both those questions ended up absent from the story, but thank you for your answers all the same.
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If I have somehow forgotten to add your name, or didn’t remember your contribution, please forgive me. I am living in the world of Magnus and Kaitlyn and it is hard some days to come up for air.
I mean to always say truthfully thank you. Thank you.
Thank you to Kevin Dowdee for being there for me in the real world as I submerge into this world to write these stories of Magnus and Kaitlyn. I appreciate you so much.
Thank you to my kids, Ean, Gwynnie, Fiona, and Isobel, for listening to me go on and on about these characters, advising me whenever you can, and accepting them as real parts of our lives. I love you.
Also by Diana Knightley
Can he see to the depths of her mystery before it’s too late?
The oceans cover everything, the apocalypse is behind them. Before them is just water, leveling. And in the middle — they find each other.
On a desolate, military-run Outpost, Beckett is waiting.
Then Luna bumps her paddleboard up to the glass windows and disrupts his everything.
And soon Beckett has something and someone to live for. Finally. But their survival depends on discovering what she’s hiding, what she won't tell him.
Because some things are too painful to speak out loud.
With the clock ticking, the water rising, and the storms growing, hang on while Beckett and Luna desperately try to rescue each other in Leveling, the epic, steamy, and suspenseful first book of the trilogy, Luna's Story:
Leveling: Book One of Luna’s Story
Under: Book Two of Luna’s Story
Deep: Book Three of Luna’s Story
About me, Diana Knightley
I live in Los Angeles where we have a lot of apocalyptic tendencies that we overcome by wishful thinking. Also great beaches. I maintain a lot of people in a small house, too many pets, and a to-do list that is longer than it should be, because my main rule is: Art, play, fun, before housework. My kids say I am a cool mom because I try to be kind. I’m married to a guy who is like a water god: he surfs, he paddle boards, he built a boat. I’m a huge fan.
I write about heroes and tragedies and magical whisperings and always forever happily ever afters. I love that scene where the two are desperate to be together but can’t because of war or apocalyptic-stuff or (scientifically sound!) time-jumping and he is begging the universe with a plead in his heart and she is distraught (yet still strong) and somehow, through kisses and steamy more and hope and heaps and piles of true love, they manage to come out on the other side.
I like a man in a kilt, especially if he looks like a Hemsworth, doesn’t matter, Liam or Chris.
My couples so far include Beckett and Luna (from the trilogy, Luna’s Story) who battle their fear to find each other during an apocalypse of rising waters. And Magnus and Kaitlyn (from the series Kaitlyn and the Highlander). Who find themselves traveling through time to be together.
I write under two pen names, this one here, Diana Knightley, and another one, H. D. Knightley, where I write books for Young Adults (They are still romantic and fun and sometimes steamy though, because love is grand at any age.)