My small town might be situated along the northern California coast where tourists and locals alike enjoy hiking and water sports. I might fill this town with a café, an ice cream shop and a bridal salon and have the hero and heroine stroll along Main Street, like Bradley Suttons and Sarah Standor did in A Country Wedding. Is it any wonder, then, that whenever I outline a new series, I almost always choose a small town for the setting? As if that wasn’t enough exposure to small town life, from second grade all the way through high school, I spent summers helping out on my grandmother’s farm in a community so tiny, it aspired to be called a town.
In between, citizens attended Saturday matinees at a theater with a real balcony, shopped for birthday presents in the five-and-dime, grabbed a bite to eat at the only restaurant for miles around, or lingered at the lunch counter while the pharmacist in the lone drug store filled their prescriptions. I love small towns! The one I grew up in consisted of a single street with a church at one end and a bank at the other.
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