Author Archives: debedmisten

In October of 2018, my husband and I sat in a restaurant across the street from this idyllic Bed and Breakfast in Bar Harbor, Maine. I fell in love with this ivy covered home and the lure of its history. My mind instantly raced with questions. Who had lived in the home when it was […]

Inspiration. We all need it in order to create. We can find inspiration in a person. We can find it in a favorite author. We can find it in a place. And one of those places for me is a beautiful cemetery in my hometown of Canal Fulton, Ohio. There’s a gravestone in that cemetery […]

This charming setting is the the Anne of Green Gables homestead in Prince Edward Island, Canada. After years of dreaming about visiting the land of my fictional kindred spirit, my husband and I finally made it there for our 30th anniversary in October of 2018. It’s hard to put into words exactly what that experience […]

We can all remember the joy we felt when we read our first book and were wonderfully, magically, transported to a whole new world! Having tasted that joy, writers write so that others can have the extraordinary experience of going to worlds other than their own by merely opening the pages of a book. When […]

Favorite characters. Every writer has a character they’ve created who is special to them. One of my favorites is Celia Petrov from The Boundary. She’s an elderly dynamo who lives life with absolute gusto! She may not be strong on self-awareness, but she’s strong on loyalty, love, compassion and curiosity about life. She didn’t burn […]

I hate having my picture taken. Fact. I simply despise it because I’m so unphotogenic. Fact. But I love this picture taken at the North Canton (Ohio) Public Library’s Local Author Fair on September 28th because one of my favorite people in the world is in the picture with me. This aspiring writer/horse-lover was the […]

Like Travis Barrett, the main character in The Boundary, I love a good mystery. I decided to set this mystery in a library because libraries are some of my favorite places in the world. The Canal Fulton Public Library in my hometown of Canal Fulton, Ohio was converted from a family home built in 1879. […]

Many Waters is a story close to my heart as several of the settings in the novel are places I’m familiar with. Like Karen Burke, my first job was at Montgomery Ward in Canton, Ohio, and Karen’s family home on Meyers Lake is where my mother-in-law has lived for years. Karen’s predicament in love is […]

The Invisible Line is set in beautiful Paris, Ohio – a place where I’ve picked blueberries and enjoyed the gorgeous scenery from a friend’s back porch. The main character in The Invisible Line has a painful secret – something many of us carry in this life, feeling we’re beyond hope. The message of this book […]

The opening conflict in Nothing Hidden is similar to a violent altercation I witnessed as a very young child, and I drew from that memory while writing this book. That incident has stayed with me throughout my life – just as the violent episode Mona Krane witnessed impacted the entirety of her life. The unfolding […]