MELISSA BLUE is a frequent visitor here at the Chicas site, and one of our favorite people.  So it is with a great deal of pleasure that we announce the release of her latest novel, SEE MEGAN RUN, from the Wild Rose Press, and turn the blog over to her today. :grin:

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THE THORNY RELATIONSHIP 

 Mothers and daughters have a relationship that only mothers and daughters can understand. These relationships are nothing like their counterparts—father/daughter or the mother/son relationships. I’ve yet to meet a woman who didn’t have issues with their mothers.(Some who still do for that matter) Or worse have started their own rocky road with their daughters. * If this is a subject you’d rather not read just skip to the links at the bottom of this post. *

Now I’ll be the first to admit I wasn’t the ideal daughter. (It’s rude to snort that loudly. And, yes, I know it’s not much of a surprise.) Trust me, it doesn’t take my mother much goading to spill the stories of those moments in my life where I was pumped up on pheromones and slightly insane. Her favorite story is the time I flicked a tear at her. Yes, you’ve read that right. I once flicked a tear at my mother. I’m not even sure how I did it or why I did it. Seriously, I blame that temporary insanity on hormones.

So, before I embarked on writing See Megan Run I knew that thorny relationship very well. I had even written about it prior in an unsold women’s fiction novel. There is something so elemental about this relationship I HAD to write about it again. Yet this time I wanted to write it from a humorous point of view, and just because I’m mean, I kept the mother alive this time.

Yes, breathing.

I wanted my heroine not only have to deal with her mother, but to live with her. * Just a show of hands, who wouldn’t do this for a million dollars? * This mother would not have been June Cleaver in her hey day. I wanted a past between these two women that would be fraught with tension and conflict. You know, like most mother and daughter relationships.

Here’s the first paragraph of SEE MEGAN RUN:

Megan Hazley frowned at the dirt driveway leading to the home she had sworn to never step foot in again and then said into her cell phone, “Think wire hangers and you’ll get a sense of the woman who birthed me.”

Even after a million revisions of this first paragraph, the wire hanger reference stayed. Isn’t that a mother’s worse nightmare? Nine out of ten mothers would winced if ever called Mommie Dearest.

I digress.

By this point I pretty much knew Megan would want to kill me. I think I’ve pointed out I’m cruel. * Come on. I didn’t kill the mother off. * I threw in a monkey wrench most women come up against once they’ve grown up—I made Megan start to like her mother.

I had to cross this bridge myself. I was about to have my second child. I was leaning on my mother more than usual for moral support and the like. Then a light bulb hit me in the head—it isn’t easy being a mother. Sometimes you can really screw up and just hope your child doesn’t need too many years in therapy. I was pregnant at the time, so I probably cried when the moment hit me.

Megan, well, she deals with it her way. And I know if she existed she’d still come at me with a two-by four. *Really, I kept her mother breathing. *

With a show of hands, who knows this thorny relationship?

~ Melissa Blue and I’m out.~

You can find me in these places:

http://www.melissablue.net

http://www.melissablue13.wordpress.com