Local author releases novel

Local author Ren Meadows has recently self-published her first novel, "Fairy Tales and Horror Stories."

Meadows, whose actual name is Barb Chamberlain, has written a contemporary novel about a girl who falls in love with her twin brother's best friend. The hero, Alyssa Wade, must endure and overcome her abusive father's prejudice toward her love interest, while dealing with internal issues and a stalker at the same time.

Meadows has written the story from two viewpoints, the second being from that of Alyssa's love interest, Race Savage, who has come back home "to find that the gangly little gi...