Dust Bowl Archives - Shelley Blanton-Stroud

Will the Circle Be Unbroken

Shelley Admin2025-01-08T17:51:52+00:00Dust Bowl, Fact and fiction, FAMILY, historical fiction, History|

My father, Kelly Blanton, aka Poppy (art above done by McKenna Blanton), died one week before Christmas. We buried and [...]

Book release party at Bogle Winery

Shelley Admin2022-06-03T22:06:01+00:00AUTHOR, Book Event, Book signing, Copy Boy, Dust Bowl, Fact and fiction, FAMILY, historical fiction, Launch, Publishing, Tomboy|

Tuesday, June 28, 2022, 6:30-8:30 Pacific. You're invited to help me celebrate TOMBOY’s publication day at Bogle Winery with wine and heavy [...]

Start Jane Benjamin’s adventure with Copy Boy–free upload

Shelley Admin2022-03-02T19:27:48+00:00AUTHOR, Copy Boy, Dust Bowl, Fact and fiction, FAMILY, feminist, feminist noir, FREE, Giveaway, historical fiction, historical thriller, Noir, Publishing|

I loved Mona's cranky, disgruntled humor in Elizabeth Gonzalez James's debut novel, MONA AT SEA. That's why I was so [...]

Interviews are dangerous

Shelley Admin2022-01-18T18:27:28+00:00audience, AUTHOR, Copy Boy, Craft, Dust Bowl, Fact and fiction, FAMILY, historical thriller, Interview|

It's like I'm a sophomore. It's fascinating to me how a person can turn sixty and still feel, well, sophomoric. To [...]

A new dust bowl

Shelley Admin2021-08-17T23:49:50+00:00Dust Bowl, History|

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