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Erika Mailman

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Update April 2018: The Murderer's Maid: A Lizzie Borden Novel just won a gold medal in Historical Fiction from the IPPY Awards, awarded to small press publications, university press publications and self-published books. I'm grateful to Bonhomie Press (an imprint of Yellow Pear Press) for entering the book into the awards!
Erika Mailman is the author of THE WITCH'S TRINITY(Random House, 2007), a novel about a medieval woman accused of witchcraft, WOMAN OF ILL FAME (Heyday Books, 2007), about a Gold Rush prostitute caught in a serial killer's web, HOUSE OF BELLAVER, a literary ghost story involving Shakespeare and suffrage, and THE MURDERER'S MAID: A LIZZIE BORDEN NOVEL, the famous true crime story told from the Irish maid Bridget Sullivan's
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Erika Mailman I make myself just write ANYTHING. Get the pen (or the cursor) moving. If I let myself remain motionless, then I tend to start looking at social media…moreI make myself just write ANYTHING. Get the pen (or the cursor) moving. If I let myself remain motionless, then I tend to start looking at social media and email instead of writing, so I force myself to write crappily just to get the crappy juices flowing.(less)
Erika Mailman The fact that reading other fiction is considered work and I get "credit" for it. :)…moreThe fact that reading other fiction is considered work and I get "credit" for it. :)(less)
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Woman of Ill Fame

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Oakland Hills

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Oakland's Neighborhoods

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Actor Nicole Berry performs Bridget Sullivan, Lizzie Borden's maid

Well, it's been quite the hiatus! Nearly a year later, I'm realizing I ought to have logged "This Pandemic Year." 

I do want to circle back and highlight one of the wonderful literary events I was part of in September 2020, and that was an online reading with Stories on Stage Sacramento. 

This unique series pairs an author with an actor who dramatically reads a story or a book excerpt, followed

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“I didn't know what I thought of heaven above us or hell deep below, the fires supposed to be constantly stoked and tended. I was afraid to tell her what I feared: that both places were kingdoms of air...And for all the praying I've done in my life, I fear that prayers are bits of grain the birds drop to the wind.”
Erika Mailman, The Witch's Trinity

“If a fox shall bear down upon the rabbit and take its neck between its teeth, the rabbit shall understand, for the rabbit itself bites down upon the grasses of the field. And as the large insect eats the smaller, it too is eaten, by a bird that flushes down from the air to complete a cycle.”
Erika Mailman, The Witch's Trinity

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Historical fiction has come out on top in our poll to decide May's read. May is going to be the month of witches so our historical read will focus on witches and witchcraft, whether the the Salem Witch Trials, or the European witch hunts. Choose wisely! Last day to vote will be Monday, April 15.

 
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