by Mary | Jan 22, 2012 | DREAMERS OF THE DAY, Writer Tech
Yesterday an email came in asking me a technical question about writing historical fiction about a real person. “My subject wrote an autobiography in the 1940s…. How does one handle first-person material without plagiarizing? If your subject recounts a...
by Mary | Jan 16, 2012 | A THREAD OF GRACE, Current events, DOC, THE SPARROW
I got email this morning from a reader who had just finished Doc and who was kind enough to take the time to tell me how he reacted to the book. “I have been a police officer in Wichita, KS for 24 years,” he wrote, “and know a little of the politics...
by Mary | Jan 6, 2012 | Just for fun!
The press office of the Russell for President campaign has issued a clarification of Mary Doria Russell’s misstatement yesterday regarding lavender as her favorite color. “Ms. Russell regrets any damage to marriage, religion and the nation that may have...
by Mary | Jan 5, 2012 | Current events, DOC, Just for fun!
Well, my fellow Americans, I got fewer delegates in Iowa than John Huntsman but I am not discouraged, and I am NOT a quitter like Michelle Bachmann, who told everyone that she’s America’s Iron Lady because she read a biography of Margaret Thatcher and...
