Catriona McPherson Archives - Shelley Blanton-Stroud

Poster Girl: “5 / 5–An excellent read”

Shelley Admin2023-06-27T18:25:07+00:00#amwriting, AUTHOR, book club, Capital Books, Catriona McPherson, historical fiction, Poster Girl|

Poster Girl doesn't launch until November but it was so great to see this first review come in from the [...]

Queen of Mean: Hedda Hopper

Shelley Admin2022-09-20T16:54:22+00:00#amwriting, Catriona McPherson, COLUMNIST, Copy Boy, Fact and fiction, Flyboy, Gossip, historical fiction, Interview, Mystery Review Crew, Research, Stories on Stage Sacramento|

Researching the third Jane Benjamin Novel (Flyboy, November 2023) had me reading quite a bit about 1940s gossip columnist Hedda Hopper. [...]

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, [...]