Spooky Legends: Wendy Delso’s Katla LeBlanc on “Resurrection Mary”

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I’m thrilled that we’re getting to feature a few debut authors during Spooky Legends including today’s guest, Wendy Delsol who has written an Paranormal YA with an enchanting premise inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Snow Queen” and Norse mythology. Katla LeBlanc is the main character in STORK and Wendy here to tell us all about Katla’s take on the “Resurrection Mary” urban legend and giveaway a copy of STORK. See details below.

Wendy Delsol considers herself first and foremost a storyteller. Because she likes to settle in and get to know her characters, she writes novels. And by getting to know her characters, she means torment them. She came to writing somewhat late, or, rather, with plenty of research and advance preparation. Before becoming a full-time writer, Wendy earned both a bachelor's degree from Michigan State University and a master's degree from California State University, Long Beach, waitressed to pay tuition, and worked more than ten years in the travel industry as a tour coordinator. Her favorite job ever was stay-at-home mom to her two (now-teenage) sons.

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Katla LeBlanc on “Resurrection Mary”
by
Wendy Delsol

“Stop right here,” Penny said, giving me so little notice that we both flew forward like a couple of crash-test dummies. “This is it.”

We were on a dark, lonely stretch of road, miles from downtown.

I inched forward, my headlights flooding the sign to some sort of restaurant or inn. “Willowbrook,” I read, squinting. If the dated sign and overgrown shrubs were any indication, the place was old, Chicago-gangster old. “This is our big adventure—my surprise?” I asked. “What is it?”

“An old dance hall.”

When I’d talked my conference-attending mom into allowing me to tag along and invite a friend, I’d envisioned shops, museums, and restaurants—not fox trotting with blue hairs. “And?”

“You’ve never heard of it? It’s famous, you know.”

“For what?” I asked, a shiver rattling my shoulders. I powered up the driver-side window.

“For Resurrection Mary.”

“Who?” I asked.

“Chicago’s most famous ghost. Halloween’s a couple of days away. I thought this would be a fun excursion. Back in the 1920s, a girl was killed on the road walking home from a dance, reportedly after fighting with her boyfriend. Ever since then, there have been sightings of a girl in a white dress and dancing shoes walking the road between here and the nearby cemetery where she was buried. Drivers have claimed to pick up a mysterious woman who merely points down the road.” Penny leaned over and tapped my arm. “You’re not freaked out, are you?”

I almost laughed out loud. Poor Penny had no idea who she was talking to. As a human Stork, one with the paranormal ability to match the undecided of hovering souls with the right mother, my “freak-out” factor was set a notch or two higher than your average weekend-willies seeker. Still, it didn’t mean I went out of my way to meet up with some stuck-on-earth spirit on some lonely strip of highway—never mind act as her damn taxi service.

“Now let’s check out the cemetery,” Penny said.

I humored her, indicating with my turn signal and pulling back onto the road.

“The most famous story came from a guy who swore he danced all night with a pretty girl in a white dress who was cold to the touch,” Penny continued. “Later he offered her a ride home. She gave him an address, but first asked him to drive down this street, Archer Avenue. He did, even though he knew it was the wrong direction. When they got to the cemetery, she told him to pull over. She then said she had to get out and go where he couldn’t follow. He watched as she ran toward the cemetery gates and then vanished before his eyes. Rattled by what had happened, the next day he went to the address she’d first given him. An older woman let him in. On the mantel, he saw a picture of the girl in white. When he claimed to have met her the night before, the woman became upset, stating it was her daughter who had been dead for years.”

We came to the cemetery fronted by a large stone pillar. At Penny’s insistence, I pulled to the shoulder.

“Lots of sightings have happened here in front of the graveyard,” Penny said. “Some even claim to have hit her with their car, but upon impact the figure dissolves into some kind of mist or haze. Or others have seen her walking along the road here.”

“I didn’t know you were so into ghosts,” I said.

“I’m not really,” she replied, “but it is kind of thrilling to think about that poor girl wandering around here lost.”

“Lost blondes in white party dresses haunting country roads aren’t thrilling, they’re sad,” I said with a big express of air.

“Did I say she was blonde?” Penny asked. “She was blonde, according to the story. How did you know that?”

“Lucky guess,” I said, my tires spraying gravel as I pulled out onto the road. “You hungry? I’ve been dying for deep-dish pizza all day.”

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Giveaway

Giveaway courtesy of Wendy Delsol
One copy of STORK by Wendy Delsol

Oh baby! A hip heroine discovers that she has the ability to decide who gets pregnant in this witty YA blend of romance and the supernatural.

Sixteen-year-old Katla has just moved from Los Angeles to the sticks of Minnesota. As if it weren’t enough that her trendy fashion sense draws stares, she learns to her horror that she’s a member of an ancient order of women who decide to whom certain babies will be born. Add to that Wade, the arrogant football star whom Katla regrettably fooled around with, and Jack, a gorgeous farm boy who initially seems to hate her. Soon Katla is having freaky dreams about a crying infant and learns that, as children, she and Jack shared a near-fatal, possibly mystical experience. Can Katla survive this major life makeover and find a dress for the homecoming dance? Drawing from Norse mythology and inspired by The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen, debut author Wendy Delsol conceives an irreverent, highly entertaining novel about embracing change and the (baby) bumps along the way

Click HERE to read an excerpt from STORK

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3. Enter by November 6th. All Spooky Legend winners will be announced on November 7th

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