Carolyn O’Neal is a founding member of BACCA Literary. She is owner of River House Hives in New Canton, Virginia, and the social media coordinator for the Virginia State Beekeepers Association. She is also the Volunteer Coordinator for the Virginia Oyster Shell Recycling Program.
CURRENT PROJECTS
Carolyn is currently working on a narrative nonfiction about the discovery of an earthquake fault under the North Anna Nuclear Power Plant in Louisa County, Virginia and the murder of the geology professor who found it.
Here’s a sample of Carolyn’s blog posts:
Searching for Dr. Funkhouser
Finding Fault All I wanted was to research manmade earthquakes. I was pulling together ideas for a new novel about villains triggering an earthquake under a nuclear power plant. I had visions of them rubbing their hands together as they watched chaos unfold. But how could I research such a thing? Where would I go to find something as unlikely, as farfetched, and as absolutely insane as a nuclear power plant built on top of an earthquake fault? Well, lucky for me, there’s one in nearby Louisa County, Virginia. The North…
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H. Spurgeon Moss: Educator, Farmer, Inspiration
In 1926, fourteen year old H. Spurgeon Moss faced a choice. Moss was a tall, bespectacled lad who loved to read but seventh grade was the end of the line for black children in the segregated schools of Louisa County, Virginia.
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Beta Readers Wanted
After years of research. After running chapter after chapter through BACCA Literary. After switching back and forth between Microsoft Word and Scrivener. After all of that the first draft of my narrative nonfiction about John W. Funkhouser, H. Spurgeon Moss, June Allen and the discovery of the earthquake fault running under the North Anna Nuclear Power Plant in Louisa County, Virginia, is finally finished.
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Past Projects
PAST PROJECTS
The story is gripping from start to finish….
Jess Porter’s review of KINGSLEY on Amazon
Carolyn is the winner of the HOOK short story contest judged by John Grisham. She is the author of KINGSLEY
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