We let each other know about opportunities, which is how our stories ended up in Artificial Divide, a first-of-its-kind own-voices anthology featuring fiction by blind and low-vision authors.Īlthough we had a lovely get-to-know you phone chat a few days beforehand, this interview was conducted over email in 2020. (I’ll paste our YouTube conversation at Women and Children First Book Store at the end of this interview.)Īlice founded Blind Authors Info and Support group on Facebook that’s small but mighty. Alice agreed to be part of the Monster Book Tour for There Plant Eyes.
Then my editor broke the news that Huff Post wanted like several hundred dollars for me to quote a few lines, and so I decided I would reach out to Alice for an interview. We Write Them, Too.” I immediately knew I wanted to meet her. He reignites dreams of starting her own family-dreams she cast aside in favor of earning her medical degree and helping her community.I first encountered Alice Eakes in her Huff Post opinion piece: “ Yes, Blind People Read Books. He believes she is the only person who can help him discover his family background.Īshley isn’t prepared for Hunter’s entrance into her world or how he affects her heart and her future.
Hunter seeks out the aid of the local midwife in the mountain town where the call originated. After receiving more media attention than he could ever want for being in the right place at the right time, he receives a mysterious call from a woman claiming to be his mother. Hunter McDermott is on a quest to track down his birth mother. Now Ashley is on a mission to find the woman and her newborn baby before it’s too late. As their midwife, she thinks she has seen it all-until a young woman gives birth at Ashley’s home and is abducted when Ashley tries to take the dangerously bleeding mother to the nearest hospital.
Coming from a long line of mountain midwives, Ashley is torn between her dream of attending medical school and her guilt for abandoning the women who depend on her.Īshley Tolliver has tended the women of her small Appalachian community for years.
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