AUTHOR Archives - Shelley Blanton-Stroud

Just write

Shelley Admin2022-11-15T18:09:50+00:00#amwriting, advice, AUTHOR, Craft, creativity, Polly Laporte|

Write it anyway. This week, my artist friend Polly LaPorte (pictured above) delivered a portrait of my Grandpa Bates Jackson. I was [...]

Difficult? Horrible? Badass?

Shelley Admin2022-08-26T22:53:47+00:00#amwriting, audience, AUTHOR, Book Event, Catriona McPherson, Fact and fiction, feminist, Gossip, historical fiction, historical thriller, Interview, Tomboy|

Talking about Tomboy with very good friends. For the past three years I've co-directed Stories on Stage Sacramento with author Dorothy [...]

August 26–Stories on Stage Sacramento

Shelley Admin2022-08-09T17:14:26+00:00audience, AUTHOR, Book Event, Catriona McPherson, Craft, creativity, feminist noir, historical thriller, Stories on Stage Sacramento, Tomboy|

Words come to life on stage this month. It's a thrill to see your work interpreted by a gifted actor, [...]

Libraries from Auckland to Yolo County

Shelley Admin2022-08-06T21:31:30+00:00#amwriting, AUTHOR, library|

I knew I should be working on book three, but I didn't have the attention span for it. So I obsessed [...]

For Writers: Janna Marlies Maron’s curly hair and super-smart writing tips

Shelley Admin2022-08-02T17:30:12+00:00#amwriting, advice, AUTHOR, creativity, editor, ideas, Process, publisher, Publishing, subconscious|

When I read author, editor and publisher Janna Maron's most-recent newsletter, which I highly recommend you subscribe to at the previous link, [...]

Stories on Stage with Catriona McPherson

Shelley Admin2022-08-01T19:01:58+00:00audience, AUTHOR, Book Event, historical fiction, historical thriller, Stories on Stage Sacramento, Tomboy|

Thank you to Inside Sacramento for spreading the word about Tomboy being performed by Gabby Battista at Stories on Stage Sacramento, [...]

Inspired by Herb Caen

Shelley Admin2022-12-01T18:25:50+00:00AUTHOR, COLUMNIST, Copy Boy, Fact and fiction, Gossip, Herb Caen, historical fiction, origin story, Research, San Francisco, Tomboy|

I love this Jerald Silva painting of Sacramento literary luminaries featuring authors Cornel West, Joan Didion, Ann Bannon, Ernesto Galarza, [...]

Stories on Stage Sacramento–with Catriona McPherson

Shelley Admin2022-06-23T02:59:38+00:00audience, AUTHOR, Book Event, Book signing, Interview, Launch, Noir|

Stories on Stage Sacramento owns a huge chunk of my heart--what a mighty little performance non-profit it is! That's why [...]

Talking about voice, with Katie McCleary TO BE RESCHEDULED

Shelley Admin2022-07-24T16:46:10+00:00916 Ink, AUTHOR, Book Event, Book signing, Tomboy|

I AM SO LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS EVENT, WHICH I HAD TO POSTPONE FOR A FAMILY EMERGENCY. This amazing thinker, [...]

Virtual cocktail class–The Tomboy

Shelley Admin2022-06-23T02:50:32+00:00AUTHOR, cocktail class, historical fiction, Tomboy, virtual|

This master literary cocktail guru, Chantal Tseng, read Tomboy and created a cocktail for her. She sent me the recipe [...]