Ask the Author: Tina J. Gordon
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Tina J. Gordon
I would love to know how my grandmother traveled from Lithuania to Cherbourg, France where she boarded a ship bound for the US. The manifest shows she was alone and 16. She died when I was very young and never talked about her journey to my mother.
Tina J. Gordon
I am rereading Wolf Hall and next up I will reread Bring Up the Bodies. I will finish with the third and final book in Hilary Mantel's brilliant Thomas Cromwell trilogy. Not light summer reading, I know, but since I'm stuck at home the trilogy seemed like a good choice. Then I got to the death of Crowell's well...that's a spoiler so I guess I'll stop here.
What are you reading?
What are you reading?
Tina J. Gordon
I never get writer's block. There are so many stories to tell and so many different ways of telling them. I do, however, get discouraged and sometimes feel as though I'm wasting my time. But writing is something I NEED to do. It fulfills me in some inexplicable way. So even if what I write never sees the light of day, I keep writing. It's like exercising. Some workouts are better than others, but it's important to do it regularly even when you don't feel like it.
Tina J. Gordon
I am writing a new novel inspired by actual events. Bianca Morgan discovers a stunning secret about her grandmother, Ruby Rowe. The story moves between the two main characters and their stories, each told in a different time period, each dealing with similar issues but in very different times. My working title is Baby, Baby.
Tina J. Gordon
I was haunted for years by a newspaper photograph of a homeless teenager emerging from a make-shift shower in the heart of a tent city.
She could have been one of my former students. The companion article described a community of working-class Americans who had, for a variety of reasons, lost everything. I wanted to write their story in a way everyone could relate to.
I was haunted for years by a newspaper photograph of a homeless teenager emerging from a make-shift shower in the heart of a tent city.
She could have been one of my former students. The companion article described a community of working-class Americans who had, for a variety of reasons, lost everything. I wanted to write their story in a way everyone could relate to.
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