COASTE | FEB - MAR 2014

Images: Milissa Sprecher ARTIST IN RESIDENCE SANDS

Sanibel, Captiva and Southwest Florida provide the perfect backdrop for this acclaimed Midwesterner-turned-islands- novelist.

From a child, she’s known these islands. As an adult and novelist, she writes

around Sanibel Island — most certainly as an adult, but also as a little girl.

(as Hemingway would always preach) what she knows. Lemmon, the acclaimed Sanibel novelist of Sanibel Scribbles, Portion of the Sea and Sand in my Eyes , Christine

“For me, writing is like picking up some dolls and playing,” she exclaims. “You’re not exactly sure what they’ll say to each other or do. When I begin, I have no idea where the story may go, and I don’t use an outline.”

says the inspiration for much of her work comes to her while simply kayaking, biking or walking

While that processmayallowfor theunexpected,

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