Anastasia Zadeik is a writer, editor and oral storyteller. After graduating summa cum laude from Smith college, with a degree in psychology, she had an international career in neuropsychological research while raising children. She now serves as director of operations…
Welcome to this months Story Behind the Story with Author Shelley Blanton-Stroud and Author Jody Hadlock! About The Lives of Diamond Bessie Title: The Lives of Diamond BessieAuthor: Jody HadlockGenre: Ghost Mysteries, Mystery Pregnant out of wedlock, sixteen-year-old Annie Moore…
Michelle Cox is the author of the Henrietta and Inspector Howard Series of historical, romantic mysteries, set largely in 1930s Chicago, which Michelle calls home. Michelle gives insight about the complexity of writing mashup literature, which readers love, but publishing…
STORY BEHIND THE STORY WITH AUTHOR LAURIE BUCHANAN BY SHELLEY BLANTON-STROUD Laurie Buchanan is the author of INDELIBLE and ICONOCLAST, books one and two of the Sean McPherson series of contemporary thrillers set in a Hedgebrook-like idyllic writers’ retreat. Laurie…
I recently learned the story behind the story of Sheldon Siegel’s thirteen critically-acclaimed, New York Times best-selling legal thrillers, featuring San Francisco attorneys Mike Daley and Rosie Hernandez. Sheldon is a retired attorney and all around good guy and mentor…
Author Anne Da Vigo’s Bakersfield Boys Club, a thriller set in late-seventies Central California, is a riveting story about the abuse of power, unflinchingly realistic, but not without hope. It holds special interest for me because I grew up in Bakersfield where the real world case—known as the Lords of Bakersfield—continues to play out in civil courts. I was eager to talk to Anne about the story behind her story.
