Wynter’s Tale
Alum News
Published December 12, 2019
Cast out of a doomsday cult, protagonist Wynter Roth finds the outside world on the verge of a pandemic, with a deadly strain of dementia spreading uncontrollably among the population.
There’s no cure for the disease, but Wynter may possess the key to a vaccine.
Such is the setup for Christian-fiction writer Tosca Lee ’92’s The Line Between, which Library Journal calls a “perfectly crafted dystopian thriller [that] will keep readers up all night and have them begging for a sequel.” Lee granted that wish with A Single Light, which finds Wynter quarantined in an underground silo built by a prepper named, ahem, Noah. What will our heroine find when she leaves the bunker? Our lips, like the silo door, are sealed.
THE LINE BETWEEN and A SINGLE LIGHT
By Tosca Lee ’92
Howard Books, January 2019 and September 2019
This story is part of the Smithies Create column in the Winter 2019-20 issue of the Smith Alumnae Quarterly.
SMITHIES CREATE
Whose Line Is It Anyway? Gloria Steinem ’56 and the late Molly Ivins ’66 are two of Smith’s most iconic—and quotable—alumnae. Smithies Create challenges you to a game of quotation identification.
So You Want to Write a Memoir? Modern Memoirs, an Amherst, Massachusetts–based self-publishing company established in 1994, specializes in personal narratives and family histories.
Junior Journalist: A true story, Cub is prolific author-illustrator Cynthia Copeland ’82’s first graphic memoir for kids.
Flying Solo: Fans of folk-pop artists Hannah & Maggie, take note: One-half of the Smithie duo has a solo project called Little Busy.
Photograph by Lee Steffen