Ask the Author: Vicki Salloum
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Vicki Salloum
I'm working on a novel about an elderly Mississippi woman who moves to New Orleans to open a cafe for Lebanese-Americans in an African-American ghetto on orders from the Mother of God. It is about death and resurrection and an old woman's fierce determination to revive a moribund, once-thriving neighborhood to bring back in new form the beloved dead of her cherished past.
Vicki Salloum
In the beginning when you have nothing to show for your efforts and it feels uncomfortable and awkward and foolish, have faith in yourself. If you were meant to be a writer, that faith will find its reward as time goes on. The results of your courage and hard work and faith in yourself will definitely be worth it.
Vicki Salloum
I read fiction. Reading fiction always inspires me to write.
Vicki Salloum
Absolutely the best thing is the joy I get from creating a fictional world.
Vicki Salloum
I think it was out of desperation. I knew I loved to read. I was bored with my job so I went to a center that tested my aptitude. The tests showed that I should be a writer. So I became a newspaper reporter. And then I became a fiction writer.
Vicki Salloum
I had this vision in my head about a teenage girl working for a middle-aged lawyer in a run-down office on Tulane Avenue in New Orleans. And my imagination grew until I had the story for CANDYLAND.
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