A House Of Light And Stone
Growing up is never easy, but for young Duffy Chavez, whose childhood is anything but innocent, the journey is particularly painful.
Swimming against the tides of her troubled family as well as her own cultural identity, she struggles with the cards she has been dealt. Buoyed up by the belief of a select few, she strives to achieve the kind of self-knowledge that comes so naturally to the ‘real girls’ all around her. As gaps in the narrative begin to fill, and the truth surrounding Duffy’s birth is unearthed, her determination to succeed is rendered all the more astounding.
Told in uncompromising clarity through the eyes of a child, A House of Light and Stone is at once full of heartbreak and hope, offering respites of warmth in the coldest of places.
E.J. Runyon
E.J. Runyon lives in the US North East. Since 2002 she’s found herself moving on to smaller and smaller towns, while working to become the author and writing coach she planned on being.
First, she quit working in software and sold her home to finance her degree in Creative Writing and her Grad-work in Online Teaching and Learning. She’s never looked back. Now, her life revolves around her own writing and Bridge to Story – an online creativity coaching business she runs– and you know, being a better person day to day.
E.J.’s passion is focused on writing fine prose and on getting folks writing, her aim is coaching them in writing well. She participates yearly in National Novel Writing Month – an event she’s been involved in since 2001. Several of the short stories in Claiming One are excerpts from her many in-progress and published novels, written during various NaNoWriMo years.
Her debut novel for Inspired Quill, A House of Light & Stone, was nominated for the 2015 Dramatic Fiction award at The Golden Crown Literary Society (GCLS).
