It’s 1977, and Twyla Higgins is a 19-year-old Texas girl with her late musician father’s guitar and big dreams about making her own career as a country music singer and songwriter. On a whim—and as a way to break away from a repressive Holy Roller mother—she takes a bus to...
It’s 1977, and Twyla Higgins is a 19-year-old Texas girl with her late musician father’s guitar and big dreams about making her own career as a country music singer and songwriter.
“And aesthetically, I love the ‘70s. It was also a gritty time, sort of tawdry and rough, and that’s pretty good for crime stories. I anchored it in ’77 because the death of Elvis was a great way to do it, and it had some symbolic meaning for .” As a lifelong fan of country/folk/bluegrass music, Frost has a particular affinity for the “murder ballads” in which the song’s narrator recounts usually in first or third person some deathly deed.
“SZA just came out with one called ‘Kill Bill.’ It’s really good!” she laughs. “But you can go all the way back to Mississippi John Hurt with ‘Frankie.’ It’s about this woman whose man has done her wrong after she gets him a $100 suit. So, she takes her revenge. And the judge sides with her!” Prior to writing full time, Frost spent 14 years working as a family and marriage therapist. She also pursued a Masters in Professional Writing, which she received in 2006. She began her debut novel Shadows of Pecan Hollow in 2012, but didn’t go full bore into it.
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