Norm:
Linda, please tell our readers a little bit about your personal and professional background.
Linda:
In a nutshell writing is my entire life. I live and breathe it. When I’m not actually sitting down to write a book, I’m thinking about plot lines, character names and interesting angles for a story.
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Writer/Biographer Marshall Terrill has just released an updated version of his highly respected bio Steve McQueen: Portrait of an American Rebel, and is now working on a new Photo Book project with Steve’s widow Barbara Minty, which will feature deeply personal photographs taken by Barbara during her and Steve’s time together over the years 1976 to 1980.
In an exclusive interview Marshall talks with McQueenOnline about both books.
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Mary Shelley was born Mary Godwin in London, England on August 30, 1797 to remarkable parents. Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, a feminist when feminism was almost unheard of, wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Women in 1792. Her father, William Godwin, a well-known critic of the British government and the founder of modern philosophical anarchism, wrote An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice in 1793. Sadly, eleven days after Mary was born, her mother died of puerperal fever, leaving William Godwin to raise Mary and her older half-sister, Fanny.
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For those of us who grew up hearing the stories and reading the books, Thomas the Train is a living legend. On 2005, Thomas and, of course, his friends celebrated their sixtieth birthday. Back in 1945, in England, the Anglican reverend Wilbert Awdry started the Railway Series by writing the first book. From that moment on, an entire generation of children has learned to love the beautiful adventures lived by Thomas the Train and his group of human-faced friends.
When he was a little boy in Box, Wiltshire, in his father’s vicarage (his father was also a clergyman), Wilbert Awdry dedicated his nights listening to the sounds made by the trains of the Great Western Railway running along the main line. This main line went between Paddington to Bristol, and passed near Vere Awdry’s (Wilbert’s father) house. He spent hours imagining the “conversations” between those trains. He may not have realized it yet, but Thomas the Train was already being born.
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Magic comes in many forms. It is at constant play in the world around us, every day, simply waiting for the eyes of the observer to find their way to it, open up, and truly see once again. It can be found, always, in nature science begins to resemble it more and more everyday, and for the strongly attuned it exists even in the mundane world of humankind’s dense constructs, where industry was thought to have long ago extinguished anything but a cheap replica of what we once knew of it.
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Books today are as popular as ever, maybe more so. It is not long after a book goes to the bestseller list, that Hollywood producers are calling to make it a movie. As the book shelves grow with more and more books, have we lost track of why we write them? In the ‘Truthiness’ issue, we see a raw picture.
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In one of the most interesting stories of the year, popular fiction readers have discovered that the best-seller The Da Vinci Code may have been full of stolen concepts. Dan Brown is in London high court this week to protect his book, his research, and his reputation as two non-fiction authors from 1982 are claiming thievery of the highest regard.
This is not the only time that an author, in the last 3 months for that matter, has faced world wide scrutiny. Dan Brown and his publisher Random House have not been successfully sued, yet another author, James Frey, has been found guilty on all charges of being a fibber. The public documentation website The Smoking Gun revealed that the non-fiction super seller A Million Little Pieces was in fact full of blatant misrepresentations of the events of Frey’s life.
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