ENNISKILLEN girl Rebecca St Clair is dipping her toe in the world of adult trilogy. Better known as Rebecca Burns she has just written ‘The Madame’s Butterfly’ which is the first in the adult trilogy ‘The Butterfly Trinity’.
The story is a sensual, intricately twisted tail of betrayal, revenge, love and the fight for freedom.
The daughter of Keith and Sue, Rebecca explains her love of grand tales started young.
She and her brother were raised on fantastical adventures plucked from their father’s head. The story telling trait was one Rebecca not only inherited but obviously embraced.
“I’m not sure who had more fun with bed time stories during my babysitting years,” she said.
Rebecca explained, “Having no formal training in ‘writing’ I was nervous about the reaction to taking a sabbatical to give this a shot. Far from being laughed out of the room my husband and family were incredibly supportive. Mum advised me to approach my first novel with the same dedication I committed to my Masters dissertation, which was took a lot of work!”
Her parents in no way regret encouraging a sense of adventure in their children as both regularly return to their beloved home in between travelling the world.
Rebecca’s decision to finally put her own stories down on paper came when she moved to Singapore with her husband.
His love for what he did inspired her to take the leap with her own passion.
“I decided I would rather try and fail than not try at all. I didn’t want to sit back in years to come and say ‘I could have done it’. As my Dad says, ‘don’t ever belong to the shudda, cudda, wudda clan’.”
She went on to explain that The Butterfly Trinity is just one of many stories from different genres that she hopes to have the opportunity to write.
“It just so happens that’s the one I chose to write first because it was most alive to me at the time. Fingers crossed I get the opportunity to write all that I have planned out.”
Rebecca originally planned ‘The Madame’s Butterfly’ as a script. She ran the idea for her story past a producer in HBO who read her framework and said ‘This will make a great book. You have to turn this in to a book.’ He also advised writing it as a script once she was done. So two years later the book has been published online and entered in to the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. From 10,000 entries it’s already made it to top 400 in its category so fingers crossed it progresses further.
On a recommendation from a local fellow author, Rebecca submitted her novel to an American production company who offered to turn her novel in to a script. However having already started writing the script herself Rebecca intends to finish her own version and submit it to US contests later in the year.
The Madame’s Butterfly is a light read and is available on Kindle, Nook and I-books. For those interested in a dramatic, sensuous, saucy, thriller before bed time simply search the book title or ‘Rebecca St Clair’ on your e-reader stores.