Ask the Author: Connie Schultz
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Connie Schultz
My working-class roots have driven my writing career, as a journalist of more than three decades, and now as a novelist. So, of course "The Daughters of Erietown" explores the lives of a working-class family. However, I am ever-mindful that our roots are our beginnings, not our excuses, which is a common theme in my work.
Connie Schultz
My novel, "The Daughters of Erietown," comes out from Random House on June 9. On the advice of both my editor, Kate Medina, and my agent, Gail Ross, I am now at work on my second one. I'm still meeting my weekly column deadlines for Creators Syndicate, as the world continues to churn and I find I am never without opinions about all that.
Connie Schultz
Deadlines and discipline. As a newspaper columnist, I can't afford a writer's block, and all these years of meeting those weekly deadlines taught me the old mantra is still a true one: There's no substitute for putting the seat of the pants into the seat of the chair. If I don't know where to start, I start where I know I want to go. The words, and the story, will come.
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