Author Archive: Thelma Adams

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Where I Find My Inspiration: Thelma Adams

Where I Find My Inspiration: Thelma Adams

I find a lot of my inspiration for writing novels in the past. For my current book, out November 6th, Bittersweet Brooklyn: A Novel , part of the inspiration came from a crime that occurred in October 1935. And that crime, the murder of “Pretty Amberg,” the aftermath pictured in the photograph above, somehow involved my […]

November 3, 2018 | By | Reply More
What’s the Point of Point of View?

What’s the Point of Point of View?

The changing use of point of view has had an impact on everything I’ve written. The most visible example is in The Last Woman Standing, a historical novel about Wyatt Earp’s true love, Josephine Marcus, which I wrote and rewrote over a period of years and stages of child development. In the final manuscript the […]

July 1, 2017 | By | 2 Replies More