historical fiction Archives - Shelley Blanton-Stroud

Herb Caen: The Sackamenna Kid

Shelley Admin2022-11-27T14:54:43+00:00#amwriting, Fact and fiction, Herb Caen, historical fiction, History, library|

I'm thrilled to join Archivist James Scott 12-1:30 December 3 for a discussion about the Sackamenna Kid: Herb Caen. We’ll [...]

Journalists as protagonists at BOUCHERCON

Shelley Admin2022-09-27T15:56:05+00:00Book Event, Book signing, Fact and fiction, historical fiction, journalism|

The Bouchercon Mystery Conference. I just returned from a week in Minneapolis with this observation: the crime-writing community is ridiculously [...]

Fiction, life, history, politics

Shelley Admin2022-09-27T15:30:17+00:00Book Event, Fact and fiction, feminist, historical fiction, History, ideas, politics|

I retired from teaching in 2021. One thing I really miss is talking about CONNECTIONS between fiction and life and [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

TO BE RESCHEDULED: Book chat, signing, reading–RUBY’S BOOKS

Shelley Admin2022-07-25T14:48:24+00:00AUTHOR, Book Event, Book signing, historical fiction, Indie Bookstores, Launch|

DUE TO FAMILY EMERGENCY, THIS EVENT WILL BE RESCHEDULED. Ruby's is another great Northern California indie bookstore, located in Folsom. [...]

April Doty, Tomboy’s Narrator–June 28

Shelley Admin2022-06-11T00:17:30+00:00audiobook, historical fiction, historical thriller, Tomboy, Uncategorized|

April Doty is the voice of Jane Benjamin. I was so lucky to meet her when she narrated the audiobook [...]