Snowy Mountains of Australia in Note by Note and Other Kindle Vella Serials

12/11/21 10:05 Filed in: Note by Note | Kindle Vella | Australia

Hi everyone!

Now that Kindle Vella has been around for a few months and more people know about it, I thought I would take some time to focus on Note by Note and how it came to be. I've always been an avid reader since I was a kid. As I grew up, I became a fan of romance novels. The first one I read was recommended by our neighbor. It was Kathleen E Woodiwiss' Ashes in the Wind. She is credited with the invention of the modern historical romance novel. From then on, I was an avid romance reader.

I’ve also always been a writer. In 4th grade, our teacher would post a picture in his classroom every Monday and we would have to write a story about it by Friday. I wish I had some of those stories. I was always writing something or another while I was growing up.

I turned serious about wanting to be an author about 20 years ago when I started Note by Note (Yes, 20 years, I was raising two children and taking care of my elderly Mom). I wanted to write a romance, but had no idea what to do beyond boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, then happily ever after. But I knew I wanted something more. Since I’m a piano teacher, it seemed logical to incorporate music in the plot somehow. And my over-active imagination started to form ideas for clues in sheet music and art and make a mystery out of it.

I love to travel. I got it from my Aunt Rosella. She loved it, never married, so was able to see so much of the world. She actually did an around-the-world trip in 1964. My college roommate and I went to London and Paris during junior year and when we graduated, we kept planning vacations together. Washington, DC, Williamsburg, Florida, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Hawaii, and finally our dream trip - Australia and New Zealand. We spent a month Down Under in 1995 and had the time of our lives. It was our favorite place.

So I decided to make Australia the home of Finn and Jess in Note by Note. Some of the settings around the world are places I’ve been, some are places I wish I could see.

Since the story begins in the Snowy Mountains of Australia, I’ll start there. We didn’t go to the Snowy Mountains, but we flew over them and spent some time in nearby Canberra, the capital city of Australia.

Here are some facts about the Snowy Mountains:

- Known informally as The Snowies, a range in the Australian Alps

- On the slopes are the Murray, Murrumbidgee, and Tumut rivers flowing inward and the Snowy River, flowing south

- Tallest mountain range in mainland Australia

- Highest point is Mount Kosciuszko at 7,3120 feet or 2,228 meters, 240 miles southwest of Sydney

- In the Australian state of New South Wales on the east coast

- The Snowy Mountains have large natural snowfalls every winter, in June, July, August, and early September (seasons are opposite of the Northern Hemisphere)

- The Aborigines are thought to have occupied the mountain range for 20,000 years

- The region is the backdrop for The Man from Snowy River, epic poem by Australia’s Banjo Peterson
http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/patersonab/poetry/snowy.html

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— Stella Ann George (@StellaAnnGeorge) December 13, 2021

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Note by Note by Stella Ann George

There are 4 new episodes since the last entry:

50 - Can We Stay Like This Forever?

51 - Just Another Day in the Life of Finn Cooper

52 - There's No Way He Could Be the Cavalier

53 - Am I Ready For This?

https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B0981LS7MN

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And there are some new Vellas I'm featuring this week:

Why Is Cal Drawing Stick Figures At 3 AM In The 22nd Century

by Anthony M. Caro

Erratic Cal does more than watch the dreadful denizens of a dead city street succumb to their addictions. He draws stick figure sketches of them under the watchful and invisible eye of a disembodied, distorted voice. Who are Cal's subjects, and what makes them so interesting to him and his overlord? And who is the mysterious figure that now has an interest in Cal?

#sci-fi #cyberpunk #mystery #noir #transgressive #crome #fantasy

https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B09MY4DJXK

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Operation Outreach

By Eric Johnson

A United Planets Marine faces life in the future and fights a new alien race. A story arc in my Eagle Hammer universe. Images done by: geekartbysentner via SelfPubBookCovers. Story length is approximately 18 episodes long.

#marine #military science fiction #aliens #fighting #science fiction #adventure

https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B09GNY3RGG

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For the Coin

By Eric Johnson

This is a small book about a mercenary unit that I wanted to write as a side project. Unfortunately it never took off with me and here are the seven episodes from that book. If interested I can write more but here are the episodes as written.

#military #war #mercenary #military science fiction #insurgency #science fiction #adventure

https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B09FZWQT37

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The Tragedies and Triumphs of Mary Heuertz's Daughters in 1800s Rural America

By Miranda School

In 1870, Mary Heuerte Wellman and her young daughters, Elizabeth and Josephine, live in Guttenberg, Iowa. By 1880 everything has changed. Mary and Josephine aren't in the Census, Elizabeth is living with her grandmother, Stephanie, and another grandchild appears in her household - five-year-old Katie Lotentz. What happened to Mary and Josephine? Are Elizabeth and Katie related? Follow this bittersweet tale of Mary's daughters as they rise from orphans to stalwarts in their communities.

#adventure #true stories #biography #pioneer families #family history #life #american history

https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B09KQ5P6NQ

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