Author Archive: Jacqueline Sheehan

Writing and Cultural Appropriation
First things first; I wrote a book based on the life of Sojourner Truth. I’m a white writer. Sojourner was black. It was my first novel and it was published fifteen years ago, back when the discussion of cultural appropriation was simmering, not on a full tilt boil like it is today. I spent five […]

Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Jacqueline Sheehan
In the novel, The Tiger in the House, Hayley, a six year-old girl, is the survivor of a triple homicide. Due to her age, but more importantly the trauma, she is unable to give Delia, a child protection worker, any information that would find Hayley’s parents or information about the violent crime. The author, Jacqueline […]

Why I Put Dogs In My Fiction
Every time I attend a book club or read at a bookstore I am asked “Why do you include dogs in all of your books?” In fact, I didn’t include animals in my novels until my second book, ‘Lost & Found’ when a black Labrador with a heroic personality walked onto the stage of my […]
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