Blog - Shelley Blanton-Stroud

Caitlin Rother and Origin Stories

On LitHub's Authors in the Tent, Ona Russell recently interviewed true crime writer, Caitlin Rother. Rother's written 14 books. As a [...]

I love my local bookstore, Capital Books, partly because they just like to have fun with books. To that end, [...]

Poet Barbara Hamby's "I Beseech Thee, O Yellow Pages" scratches an itch today. Thanks to my friend, author Amanda McTigue, [...]

I had some fun this week, working on a book trailer for Tomboy. Sure, there were logistical, technical issues to [...]

I admire author Natashia Deón for reasons artistic and otherwise. What especially rises up right now is the way she [...]

Writing historical fiction means a lot of learning. Some of it gives me a headache. But other research topics are [...]

In a recent event by Stories on Stage Sacramento, I interviewed crime novelist, David Heska Wanbli Weiden, author of Winter [...]

Though half of Tomboy takes place on RMS Queen Mary in 1939, I was never able to visit her in [...]

A big scene in Tomboy takes place at the 1939 Wimbledon ladies’ singles championship. I know of few better places [...]

(Illustrator Jacqueline Tam in The Atavist Magazine.) My friend Kathy Butler shared a story with me, knowing how I feel [...]

Researching and writing Copy Boy, I knew historical events and conditions in the 1930s would connect with some of those [...]

The Stories on Stage Sacramento crew (Dorothy Rice, Sue Staats, the missing-from-the-picture Jessica Laskey, and I) were thrilled to host [...]