Author Archive: Jacqueline Friedland
Plague Authors are Crushing It
I recently heard someone refer to writers who have released books during the Covid era as “plague authors.” As a member of that illustrious group myself, I found that term spot on. No sugar coating, no euphemism, just telling it like it is. And my friends, let’s be clear: releasing a novel into a world […]
Genre Hopping
I am a genre hopper. There. I said it. My first novel, Trouble the Water, is historical fiction, and my second, That’s Not a Thing, is contemporary. People keep asking me how this can be, how one author can inhabit two different spheres? But isn’t this the story of what we, as women, do so […]
Asking for Trouble
Asking for Trouble Like many women, I hate asking for help. Perhaps because I have been reared as part of a generation of independent women, perhaps because I have been taught that I am a capable individual, perhaps because I am a people-pleaser by nature, I cringe every time I ask anyone to do me […]
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Jacqueline Friedland
We asked Jacqueline Friedland if she would be willing to interview Abigal Milton, the main character of her novel TROUBLE THE WATER. Set against the vivid backdrop of Charleston twenty years before the Civil War, Trouble the Water is a captivating tale replete with authentic details about Charleston’s aristocratic planter class, American slavery, and the Underground Railroad. […]
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