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IN THE PRESS...
“They may seem like characters from best-selling thriller novels, but these kick-ass women writers have very real lives....” –The Big Thrill
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Lisa Black
● A forensic specialist, she is still catching criminals in FLA. Her novel, Perish, is a nominee for the Sue Grafton Memorial Award.
Chris Goff
● An intrepid world traveler, she was once trapped with her daughter in a dangerous enclave in the Middle East.
Karna Small Bodman
● While serving as Sr. Director of the National Security Council, Karna was the highest-ranking women on the White House staff. Her books regularly hit Amazon's #1 in Thrillers.
Jenny Milchman
● A former psychotherapist, her first (unpublished) novel of crime fiction was inspired when she was assigned a very frightening case involving a five year-old child.
KJ Howe
● Has raced camels in Jordan and ziplined in
a Costa Rican jungle. Her novel, The Freedom Broker, won the Thriller Award for Best Debut.
Gayle Lynds
● Recently appeared on CBS Sunday Morning about conspiracy theories. She shattered the glass ceiling at Bouchercon's all-boys poker games.
Carla Neggers
● She ran the Dingle (Ireland) half-marathon in epic wind and rain, while on deadline for Imposter's Lure. Author of multiple New York Times bestsellers.
Lynne Constantine
● Has explored coral reefs all over the world, sunken wrecks in the South Pacific, and fallen in love with angelfish in the Caribbean. She is two people: Liv Constantine writing with her sister, and L.C. Shaw writing solo.
Valerie Constantine
● Has worked with advance teams at the White House, planning presidential trips and travel and has visited over forty foreign countries.
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Florence Goodenough |
Great post! I recall reading an article, probably in some child-rearing magazine, about kids and their drawings. It pointed out the part about missing body parts and some feeling of inadequacy or some such. (Don't recall, it was a long time ago.) Anyway, my oldest daughter loved to draw pictures of herself and the rest of her family, including the dog. Early drawings were basically heads with stick figure arms/legs jutting from it. No body. When she graduated (about the age of 3-4, I think), and included a stick body, she had a funny habit of adding circles on the shoulders of her stick-figure family, then the arms jutted out from there. I never knew if they were supposed to be sleeves or what, but they were there. Every. Single. Time. Now I need to go back and see if there were any body parts missing, or were these things add-ons! (Should be fun. She was a very personable kid.)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the fun reminders about the drawings!
ReplyDeleteFascinating, Lisa -- now, have you incorporated any of that research into your stories? You write terrific books, so keep us posted.
ReplyDeleteIt's too good not to use, so it definitely comes up in Suffer the Children! Actually aside from that and one other book, I don't usually have children as characters. I've never feel sufficiently qualified to write them!
DeleteInteresting that the drawing test started as a way to measure intelligence and not emotional issues. I don't usually write about children either and have only one in my books as a minor character. Nice post!
ReplyDeleteLike Jamie, I found it interesting that the tests evolved from a measure of intelligence. Does that mean that the better a child can draw the more intelligent they are? I draw so much better than my husband, while he's much smarter than me. And, like Robin, I'm now going to go back and look at some of my children's childhood drawings. Great post!
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