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March was Women's History Month, and Australian writer/historian Gillian Polack has invited writers from every imaginable corner of the globe to talk about women writers that are under-appreciated. One of them wrote about the Allie stories.
"What I’d like to talk about, though, is a set of books I wish desperately had been around when I was eleven years old. The series is commonly referred to after its first volume, Night Calls."
This is where you're going with a click:
http://www.gillianpolack.com/womens-history-month-guest-post-by-jennifer-stevenson/
As it turned out, I decided to write for the same blog series, and wrote about Jen's use of magic, sex, and love in her many novels.
"Somewhere in her youth writer Jennifer Stevenson pieced together way too much about betrayal, loss, healing, death, and second chances. Wanting to understand, she soaked up information from family, books, and schools, ending up with advanced degrees in counseling and (I suspect) simultaneously realizing that she knew too much—and too little—about human nature.
"On this journey it looks like she became interested in stories that addressed all the things she valued, and realized that 1) the bass note of her musical universe was the enduring nature of Love, and 2) all forms of human sexuality are real, no-we’re-not-kidding magic."
And here's how you get to this one:
http://www.gillianpolack.com/guest-post-from-katharine-eliska-kimbriel/
There are other wonderful essays written about novelists you may know, and others you have missed. Take a look at the March, 2018 archive and enjoy.
"What I’d like to talk about, though, is a set of books I wish desperately had been around when I was eleven years old. The series is commonly referred to after its first volume, Night Calls."
This is where you're going with a click:
http://www.gillianpolack.com/womens-history-month-guest-post-by-jennifer-stevenson/
As it turned out, I decided to write for the same blog series, and wrote about Jen's use of magic, sex, and love in her many novels.
"Somewhere in her youth writer Jennifer Stevenson pieced together way too much about betrayal, loss, healing, death, and second chances. Wanting to understand, she soaked up information from family, books, and schools, ending up with advanced degrees in counseling and (I suspect) simultaneously realizing that she knew too much—and too little—about human nature.
"On this journey it looks like she became interested in stories that addressed all the things she valued, and realized that 1) the bass note of her musical universe was the enduring nature of Love, and 2) all forms of human sexuality are real, no-we’re-not-kidding magic."
And here's how you get to this one:
http://www.gillianpolack.com/guest-post-from-katharine-eliska-kimbriel/
There are other wonderful essays written about novelists you may know, and others you have missed. Take a look at the March, 2018 archive and enjoy.
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The first time I read one of Ann (A. C.) Crispin’s books was during my Star Trek phase, back when I was about 11 years old. Back then, it was actually possible to collect and keep up with all of the Trek books. I had almost all of them, and I remember Yesterday’s Son standing out as one of my favorites. I snatched up the sequel, Time for Yesterday, a few years later.
corresponded a bit online, and her books have been a part of my life since I was a child. When I set out to be a writer, her work with Writer Beware was one of the most important resources I found.
