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VONCILLE SHIPLEY
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About Voncille
Voncille Shipley grew up in a time when children played outside until dark without fear, when neighbors visited each other and sat on porches drinking iced tea, and when the town high school band held a concert on Thursday nights during the summer.
Sitting unobserved while the grownups talked, she absorbed their patterns of speech, memorized their stories, and dreamed of a time when she could write it all down to chronicle a way of life that had already passed by. Using fictional families, she invented stories to portray true-to-life situations of pioneer life in Oklahoma.
But the business of living put her dreams of writing novels on hold. After taking business courses and learning on the job, she spent most of her working life as a bookkeeper. Writing an occasional poem or short segment of a longer narrative staved off her hunger to be a novelist for a short time but the desire never lessened. After her first husband died, she attended East Central University in Ada, OK majoring in accounting. Her first published poem appeared in the college publication.
She then married a lumberman and joined him in owning and operating a lumberyard. When they retired, she took a creative writing course and published her first two novels, This Raw, Red Land and Land of Sun and Flowers, to tell those stories that had formed in her mind since childhood.
Her new series, Trish LaClede Mysteries, changes genres, setting, and characters. The first novel, Left for Dead, set in southwestern Missouri in fictional locations introduces Trish LaClede, a grieving woman who, although inexperienced in business, assumes day-to-day operation of her family’s floundering firm while searching for the person who left her husband for dead.
Legacy of Deception, published in Nov. 2007 takes Trish to Oklahoma to search for data to solve a mystery concerning her late husband and relatives unknown to him. Deception from days long gone impacts several lives—and one death. Opposition from persons afraid she will uncover secrets of the past put her in bodily danger before she pulls the tangled threads of deceit together.
Sitting unobserved while the grownups talked, she absorbed their patterns of speech, memorized their stories, and dreamed of a time when she could write it all down to chronicle a way of life that had already passed by. Using fictional families, she invented stories to portray true-to-life situations of pioneer life in Oklahoma.
But the business of living put her dreams of writing novels on hold. After taking business courses and learning on the job, she spent most of her working life as a bookkeeper. Writing an occasional poem or short segment of a longer narrative staved off her hunger to be a novelist for a short time but the desire never lessened. After her first husband died, she attended East Central University in Ada, OK majoring in accounting. Her first published poem appeared in the college publication.
She then married a lumberman and joined him in owning and operating a lumberyard. When they retired, she took a creative writing course and published her first two novels, This Raw, Red Land and Land of Sun and Flowers, to tell those stories that had formed in her mind since childhood.
Her new series, Trish LaClede Mysteries, changes genres, setting, and characters. The first novel, Left for Dead, set in southwestern Missouri in fictional locations introduces Trish LaClede, a grieving woman who, although inexperienced in business, assumes day-to-day operation of her family’s floundering firm while searching for the person who left her husband for dead.
Legacy of Deception, published in Nov. 2007 takes Trish to Oklahoma to search for data to solve a mystery concerning her late husband and relatives unknown to him. Deception from days long gone impacts several lives—and one death. Opposition from persons afraid she will uncover secrets of the past put her in bodily danger before she pulls the tangled threads of deceit together.
Circumstantial Evidence, published in 2009, centers on daughter, Nicole LaClede and her fiance, Drew Davenport. The ages of most of the characters range from twenty to thirty which changes the tone of the narrative from that of the earlier books featuring primarily middle-aged and older persons. Smoldering hatred and long-held secrets from people in Drew Davenport's past converge to blindside him and weave a tangled web of events that point to him as the culprit in the disappearance of a fellow college student. As the search for her stretches out for weeks, evidence appears to stack up against Drew and threatens him with complete loss of every aspect of his life except Nicole.