My Writing Life: Ongoing Adventures

The Power of Stories

Posted by on Oct 1, 2024 in Blog Posts, My Writing Life, Not Media Bar | 2 comments

The Power of Stories

Once again, as an election barrels toward us in the U.S., we desperately need stories of hope to outshine spreading tales of hatred and fear…

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That Untraveled World

Posted by on Sep 22, 2024 in Blog Posts, My Writing Life | 0 comments

That Untraveled World

Occasional musings about stories, history, art, ideas, and journeys of the imagination: everything that makes me want to write…

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My Advice to Writers

Posted by on Aug 25, 2024 in Blog Posts, My Writing Life, Not Media Bar | 0 comments

My Advice to Writers

I’m often asked for advice on how to become a writer. The answer is to write. If you’re aiming at fiction, forget about “writing what you know”…

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Serendipity: Adventures in Writing

Posted by on Apr 10, 2014 in Blog Posts, Gallery, Haunt Me Still, Haunt Me Still Gallery, My Writing Life | 0 comments

Serendipity: Adventures in Writing

“I don’t know.” Three simple words. One potent and seductive phrase that led to a remote loch in the Scottish Highlands as I researched Haunt Me Still…

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Reduced Shakespeare Podcast: The Shakespeare Secret

Posted by on Mar 16, 2014 in Blog Posts, Interred With Their Bones, My Writing Life, Shakespeare | 0 comments

Reduced Shakespeare Podcast: The Shakespeare Secret

Jennifer talks with Austin Tichenor about writing “Interred With Their Bones”…

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“Her Writing Journey”

Posted by on Mar 11, 2014 in Blog Posts, Gallery, Interred With Their Bones, My Writing Life | 0 comments

“Her Writing Journey”

“She timed escape routes on two continents, planned arson, and scouted the perfect place to commit murder…”

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Shakespeare in the Wild West: Jennifer on Arizona Spotlight

Posted by on Mar 10, 2014 in Blog Posts, Interred With Their Bones, My Writing Life, Not Media Bar, Shakespeare | 0 comments

Shakespeare in the Wild West: Jennifer on Arizona Spotlight

Jennifer talks about Shakespeare’s popularity in the Wild West with James Reel on AZPM’s “Arizona Spotlight” (Oct. 26, 2007)…

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Lost Treasure in the Library

Posted by on Mar 9, 2014 in Blog Posts, Interred With Their Bones, My Writing Life, Not Media Bar, Shakespeare | 0 comments

Lost Treasure in the Library

One autumn evening early in graduate school, poking about in a corner of Harvard’s Widener Library, I came upon an old set of books…

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How the Bard Won the West: Back Story

Posted by on Mar 2, 2014 in Blog Posts, Interred With Their Bones, My Writing Life, Not Media Bar, Shakespeare | 0 comments

How the Bard Won the West: Back Story

In the summer of 1997, I drove 1200 miles around the American West looking for Shakespeare, on assignment from the Smithsonian Magazine…

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How I Came to Write about Smallpox

Posted by on Feb 9, 2014 in Blog Posts, My Writing Life, Not Media Bar, Smallpox, The Speckled Monster, The Speckled Monster Gallery | 0 comments

How I Came to Write about Smallpox

I’m often asked how I came to write about smallpox. I found Lady Mary in a literary footnote fantasizing about Circassian slaves…

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