by DianneSalerni | Jul 26, 2010 | Maggie Fox, We Hear the Dead
I’ve written about Maggie Fox on this blog, and I’ve written about Kate. But I haven’t said much about the third Fox sister – the one variously described by reviewers as controlling, domineering, mercenary, manipulative, and overbearing: Leah Fox Fish Brown Underhill....
by DianneSalerni | Jul 22, 2010 | review, We Hear the Dead
I was pretty excited when We Hear the Dead received favorable reviews from Kirkus, Booklist, and School Library Journal. Those are some really powerful names to have backing my work, and I love every one of them.But today I read a review posted on The Snappy Dragon...
by DianneSalerni | Jul 14, 2010 | Fox sisters, Maggie Fox, We Hear the Dead, writing
Last week, I received an unexpected message on Facebook from a descendant of the Fox sisters! This lady, who lives in a neighboring county of PA (and whom I hope to meet up with this summer) is a great-great-(great?)-grandniece of Maggie and Kate Fox.This is really...
by DianneSalerni | Jun 25, 2010 | screenplay, We Hear the Dead, writing
Last night, I was a guest at the Avon Grove Library for Teen Night. “Meet the Author” the signs said – which, I have to admit, made me feel kind of like a poser. I was worried that nobody would show up. I was worried that a ton of people would show up, (but they would...
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 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,...
