Storyteller's Journey

Next Stop: Venice!
 
As I mentioned last week, my husband and I visited Vencie in 2014. After over a decade, that research is finally going to pay off; the third novel in my middle grade series will be set there.

Pictured here is Santa Maria della Pieta; the church where Vivaldi's female orchestra and choir performed. Next door to it was the Ospedale della Pieta: the school and orphanage where the girls lived.

We spent several hours in the church. Gathering specifics about a location is only part of the benefit from visiting an historic site. The ambience is also so important to record. After all these years I'm so grateful that I took copious amounts of notes. 

It feels a bit strange to be working on the third book when the second one hasn't been published yet, but I must maintain my momentum! The working title for book III in The Time Travel Tales of Livvi Biddle is A Vigil in Venice. 

Stay tuned for more updates on my MG time-travel series!