Who is D"Anne Palmer and why does she own a forty foot RV?

D'Anne Palmer is stuck outside of Nashville. Her husband of twenty-five years drops dead on their last ditch, marriage-saving tour across country, and a month later, D'Anne discovers she's also penniless. Desperate for money, and yearning to get home to her two adult sons, the 46 year old widow posts an ad at the local Laundromat.

40 foot RV for hire, plus cook and driver. Fee negotiable.

Playing chauffeur to the highest bidder seems like D'Anne's only ticket home to California.

So who is D'Anne, what does she look like, how does she feel? I tend to envision my characters from the inside out. First I figure out what their problem is, why they can't achieve their goal, and what motivates them to start or continue their quest, then I look outward to their appearance. When I reached the "flesh and bones" part of creating D'Anne Palmer, I saw the personification of a down-on-her-luck, spunky kid. In ONE FOR THE ROAD, the forty-six year old spunky kid looked like this:

I hope you'll join D'Anne Palmer and Tyler White on the road from Tennessee to Las Vegas by way of Texas.

One the biggest detour of her life, D'Anne Palmer discovers there's no place like home... and home is where the heart is.

For more information about ONE FOR THE ROAD, Visit Lynne Marshall at www.lynnemarshall.com