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Show Carole Completes Novel v V i CAROLE COLE Bountiful resident Carole Cole has recently accomplished accom-plished a first, her first novel has just come off the presses. WHAT IS it like having your first novel published? "It's extremely ex-tremely exciting," she states. "And I am really the coauthor, co-author, Carol Partridge Mcintosh Mcin-tosh of Burlington, Wyo. is also a coauthor." The novel, entitled "What Price Zion," is historical fiction, fic-tion, though it is based on true experiences of Mrs. Mcintosh's Mcin-tosh's great-grandmother Ann Littlefield. Mrs. Mcintosh did the bulk of the research and first draft. Mrs. Cole took it from there and turned it from a biography into a novel. ANN Littlefield was a convert con-vert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the mid-1850s in England. She and her nine children wanted to emigrate to America to be with the Saints. But Will Littlefield was totally tot-ally hostile and refused to let them go. He also threw many obstacles in his wife's way trying to force her to renounce her religion. She survived . them all and eventually reached her goal, but not without with-out paying dearly. THERE ARE few historical novels in the LDS market that are not also romances. "What Price Zion" is definitely not a romance, but it is a gripping story. Mrs. Cole moved from Butte, But-te, Mont., to Bountiful in 1978 with her husband and their four children'." Jim Cole is a "' wildlife biologist with the U.S. Forest Service. THOUGH ' What Price Zion" is Mrs. Cole's first published pub-lished novel, she has also written writ-ten another novel, for juvenile readers, which von second prize in the Utah Arts Council Original Writing Contest in 1980. That novel is undergoing some revision before being submitted to a publisher. Always an avid reader, Mrs. Cole feels she has learned to write by absorbing the language lan-guage through reading good literature li-terature and actual w riting experience ex-perience rather than formal education. Her first attempt at writing came w hen she submitted submit-ted an article in the Church's Article Writing Contest in 1975. It too won a second place award. ENCOURAGED, Mrs. Cole enrolled in an inexpensive mail-order writing course and enjoyed several more small successes in publication of a poem and two children's short stories. Three articles she wrote for the church's "Ensign" "En-sign" magazine have been published over the past few years. Future projects include a book on the deaih of a 14-year-old boy afflicted with Morfan's disease. Mrs. Cole also intends to explore several other possibilities possi-bilities she has in mind for other historical novels. |
