“The Things We Do for Love”, the Story Behind the Story

Julia Park Tracey's new novel, Whoa, Nelly! A Love Story* (*with Footnotes), offers new takes on Little House books

Vista, CA:  Author Julia Park Tracey’s newest novel, Whoa, Nelly! A Love Story* (*with Footnotes), will be published November 14, 2025, by women’s publishing company Sibylline Press. Available now in trade paperback, ebook, and forthcoming in audiobook by Tantor Media. Lonely librarian Nelly sets out to walk in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s footsteps—only to find that […] The post Julia Park Tracey’s new novel, Whoa, Nelly! A Love Story* (*with Footnot…

“The Things we do for Love”, the story behind the story

This story has been ongoing since I was seventeen, and just to let you know, I’m 72 this year. Yes, it’s taken a long time to get it done. Why, you might ask. Well, I never gave it much interest because I started writing it after a small incident when I was 17, and working as a book packer for a book distributor in Melbourne At the end of my first year, at Christmas, the employer had a Christmas party, and that year, it was at a venue in St Kild…