By james art 
As a child, Rachel Marsh was in circles around his house, having fun with the complex stories he came up with as he went. “Telling stories to myself has always been something I did,” Marsh says. “When I was younger, I wrote stories about children my age and assumed that as I grew up, I would continue to write stories about people who are my age. But it didn’t really happen. “
The lure for creating children’s stories remained. After graduating from Tulan, she went to Boston to pursue a master’s degree in fine arts for creative writing for children from Simmons University. There, her professors appointed her to write two books before the end of the school year. “I went into the program with the idea of a book,” she explains. “Then, the second semester, I was desperate to invent another book.”
As she was picking her brain for an idea, the same question continued to return: what is the book just you Can I write? At the same time she studied her beloved Kajun in the evening before Christmas For a different project. She soon realized that her classmates were completely unknown to the book – and the culture of South Louisiana as a whole. Then he came across inspiration.
“I started to think that this was my story, that only I can write,” she says. “There are not many Cajun books, especially at the age of eight to 12 years, representing the main character as a girl. All these things gathered to inspire this book. “
Marsh made his debut novel, Rougarou Magicby weaving a tale of kajun with your own feelings of home disease.
Making scenes and characters came easily, Marsh says. “The book was writing quite smoothly, but the publication of your book – publication is a process that is really full of rejection,” she adds.
With the support of family, friends and her now husband, she stubbornly through 100 “Nos” by literary agents and publishers until she received “yes” and share Rougarou Magic With the world.
She is now working on the novel of her second children, planned for publication in 2026. “This is another book that deals with the topics of Kajun and Louisiana,” she says. “Although it is not a continuation.”
To keep up with Rachel Marsh, visit Rachelmmrsh.com.
This story was initially published from INGISTER on January 30thS To keep up with INGISTERSubscribe to the free INGISTER at home E-newsletter here.