Ask the Author: Cassi Clark
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Cassi Clark
I am not fascinated with morbid books. I am fascinated with humanity, why we do the things we do. Who we really are. Often that is violent. To say that what we consume causes our violence is to deflect our nature, rather than appreciate that the media we create is a reflection of it. I am particularly interested in women and how we deal with that violence, and how women manifest psychological disorders in our culture.
Cassi Clark
I don't read enough books about magic to answer this. LOL I need to get on that. :) But i would say I would love to visit the world in From Time To Time by Jack Finney. I am drawn to the late victorian, early edwardian era when everything seemed new and possible while the social mores were reclamping down on women's rights. The duality is fascinating to me. Plus time machines. I'm prone to falling down research rabbit holes, so having a time machine to go learn this thing or that would be like real life google!
Cassi Clark
So many! really I'd like to finish a number that i started and then set aside to write like Babbet, Iron John, and Inventing the Psychological. I'd also like to read The Whole Brain Child, maybe Be Here Now, and i'm still looking for some good books on Goddesses. For Fiction I have started listening to Elizabeth Peters' Mis Peabody series and am going to read or listen to Maise Dobbs.
Cassi Clark
My life does not have much mystery in it, though I am currently investigating my genealogy - perhaps there will be something there. I find inspiration in mysteries and crimes around Denver. Such as the story of Gertrude Gibson Patterson, who shot her husband in front of the Richtoheffen Castle and was the first woman acquitted on a defense of Self-Defense by Domestic Violence. Or the first co-ed murder at CU, in which the investigation was taken over by the press, who found and convicted a man who may or may not have committed the crime.
Cassi Clark
Find a community that write's similar stuff to you (fiction, non-fiction, memoir, etc) that can teach you, critique you, advise you, push you, etc.
Cassi Clark
Learning new things. I personally like to learn about people and what makes them tic.
Cassi Clark
I do research. Sometimes rabbit holes spur ideas.
Cassi Clark
Woman of Ruinous Face, a fiction novel about a female serial killer in 1912 Denver.
I am also co-authoring a non-fiction Malcolm Gladwell- Style book about how we are in a time of punctuated culture change and what that means for society - like when we went from agrarian to industrial and how that changed everything. We are moving into a post-petrolium/information age that will last longer than the industrial age and so the cultural affects are important.
I also have a Boardwalk Empire like TV show in my back pocket, about turn of the century Denver and the Speer Era. The civilizing of Denver, the push and pull between progressives and frontiersmen and Denver's own machine government.
I am also co-authoring a non-fiction Malcolm Gladwell- Style book about how we are in a time of punctuated culture change and what that means for society - like when we went from agrarian to industrial and how that changed everything. We are moving into a post-petrolium/information age that will last longer than the industrial age and so the cultural affects are important.
I also have a Boardwalk Empire like TV show in my back pocket, about turn of the century Denver and the Speer Era. The civilizing of Denver, the push and pull between progressives and frontiersmen and Denver's own machine government.
Cassi Clark
My nonfiction writing comes from personal experiences, but my fiction comes from historic crimes or times in history that fascinate me. Typically that spurs a character or theme that I want to explore.
Cassi Clark
I had a terrible time getting My Little Milkaholic to latch - he would just scream at my breast. There were no books that seemed to have the answers and none that made me fell less alone. Inspired by Belly Laughs by Jenny McCarthy and all Jill Conner Browne's Sweat Potato Queen books, I decided Breastfeeding is a Bitch, but we lovingly do it anyway was a book I should write.
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