by DianneSalerni | Jun 19, 2010 | Pennsylvania, screenplay, writing
Summer vacation starts today. It’s been a l-o-n-g spring. I know that I posted (with some bravado) back at the beginning of June that I wasn’t going to “strike my colors” and give up teaching. But I’ve got to tell you – about a week after that, I was dying to...
by DianneSalerni | Jun 16, 2010 | Fox sisters, seance, We Hear the Dead
In writing We Hear the Dead, it became necessary for me to focus on one of the two Fox sisters. Maggie was my obvious choice, because she was the morally conflicted sister who faced a mob at Corinthian Hall, a violent attack in Troy, and the one who was drawn into a...
by DianneSalerni | Jun 14, 2010 | history, Pennsylvania, research, writing
In speaking to other historical fiction authors, I’ve discovered many of them experience the same frustration I do when conducting research. You might think that our biggest problem is finding enough information, but that’s not true. The problem is we find so many...
by DianneSalerni | Jun 9, 2010 | Maggie Fox, We Hear the Dead
On my class field trip today (in between rainstorms, hikes through the swamp, and begging kids to quiet down on the bus), I chatted with some of my parent chaperones about teenage TV stars – past and present. It seemed to us that a lot of popular shows these days,...
by DianneSalerni | Jun 7, 2010 | guest post
Today I’d like to welcome author and blogger Marva Dasef, who has written a guest post and a vignette about an old paranormal friend – Big Foot, who (I am told) mixes an awesome vodka martini. Visit Marva at home on her blog or her website.The Others Among...