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  • Q&A: Jill McCorkle on dolls, dollhouses, tiny objects and what they have to do with writing and life
  • How My French Work Exchange Journey Led to a New Life and Love
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Q&A: Jill McCorkle on dolls, dollhouses, tiny objects and what they have to do with writing and life

September 9, 2020 by Jo Maeder Leave a Comment

    “I have always loved dolls. And yes, there are still within the love, those that have creeped me out!” – Jill McCorkle Jill McCorkle is a bestselling, award-winning author of unforgettable novels and short stories. She was a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Fiction at Harvard, where she also chaired the department of creative writing. […]

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Filed Under: Author Q&A, Blog, Dolls, Entertainment, Family, Love, Pop Culture Tagged With: Baby Thumbelina, Charlie McCarthy, Danny O'Day, dollhouses, Dolls, Dr. Ruth, Japanese wig doll, Jill McCorkle, Liddle Kiddles, Nancy Anne Storybook. Wednesday's Child Doll, Thoreau dollhouse

How My French Work Exchange Journey Led to a New Life and Love

February 12, 2020 by Jo Maeder Leave a Comment

Hotel de Cours de Thomazeau in Castillonnes, France. A few years ago I stumbled on the blog Enjoy Living Abroad and began a vicarious journey through Karen McCann and her husband Rich. In 2004, these intrepid Americans decided to live one year in Seville. They’re still there. If you’ve ever dreamed of living abroad or […]

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Filed Under: Author Q&A, Blog, Travel Tagged With: cultural exchange, France, HelpX, travel with a purpose, traveling solo, work exchange

Chuck Berry, the author, takes out the trash and dishes it, too

March 19, 2017 by Jo Maeder Leave a Comment

I confess, I probably wouldn’t have read Chuck Berry’s autobiography had I not seen Bob Dylan reading it backstage. I immediately bought it and devoured it. Not long after, Berry played a club in New York City and I was asked to introduce him onstage as part of my DJ duties as “The Rock and […]

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Filed Under: Author Q&A, Pop Culture, Radio, Relationships Tagged With: Autobiography, Chuck Berry, memoir, Rock and Roll, Themetta Berry

Q&A: Daniel De Vise on Andy Griffith, Don Knotts, Mayberry misfits and affairs, and unusual gifts from fans

March 14, 2016 by Jo Maeder 2 Comments

On behalf of all of The Andy Griffith Show fans, I’d like to thank Daniel de Visé for writing Andy and Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show. It’s extremely well-researched and includes 35 great photographs. Not a surprise given all the awards (including a Pulitzer) de Visé has earned. […]

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Filed Under: Author Q&A, Pop Culture Tagged With: Andy Griffith, Daniel de Vise, Don Knotts, Mayberry

Q&A: Patricia Park on RE JANE, nunchi, and the danger of rewrites

March 7, 2016 by Jo Maeder 2 Comments

I read Re Jane while I was in the midst of renovating a home while living over an hour away. I didn’t have much time for joy reading and my ability to concentrate was marginal. However, I couldn’t let go of this book. No matter how long it had been between picking it up, it […]

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Filed Under: Author Q&A, Family, Writing Advice Tagged With: Jane Eyre, Patricia Park, Re Jane

Q&A: Candace Bushnell on KILLING MONICA, what Hollywood needs to do, privacy, reinvention, Mom, and more

December 14, 2015 by Jo Maeder Leave a Comment

                It’s indeed a pleasure to welcome Candace Bushnell to my ongoing author Q&As. Ms. Bushnell, of Sex and the City, Lipstick Jungle and The Carrie Diaries  fame, talked to me about her new novel Killing Monica (Grand Central Publishing, 2015). Killing Monica  is classic Candace Bushnell and yet […]

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Filed Under: Author Q&A, Family, Pop Culture, Writing Advice Tagged With: Candace Bushnell, emoji line, female empowerment, Killing Monica, privacy, stationery line

Q&A: Teresa Engebretsen, the Sabbatical Chef, on How to Speak French and Indulge Your Inner Francophile

April 27, 2014 by Jo Maeder Leave a Comment

Teresa Engebretsen has been teaching French to middle school students at Durham Academy in Durham, NC, for over 30 years. Often she takes her students on field trips to France. Her blog The Sabbatical Chef began when she took a sabbatical from teaching in 2008, lived in Arles, and worked with a French chef. It’s […]

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Filed Under: Author Q&A, Cooking/recipes, Entertaining, Love, Travel Tagged With: Francophile, French cuisine, Learning French or any language, Opposites Attack, Travel

Q&A WITH TOMMY HAYS on WHAT I CAME TO TELL YOU

October 13, 2013 by Jo Maeder Leave a Comment

                  Tommy Hays is the author of the 2006 novel The Pleasure Was Mine which was selected for several community-wide reading programs in various cities and counties, including Greenville, SC and Greensboro, NC. His other adult novels are Sam’s Crossing, which has been recently re-released, and In the Family Way, […]

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Filed Under: Author Q&A Tagged With: Asheville, Bamboo weaving, Buddhist, middle grade, Thomas Wolfe, Tommy Hays, What I Came To Tell You

AUTHOR 2 AUTHOR: JO MAEDER’S Q&A WITH SUSAN CRANDALL

September 26, 2013 by Jo Maeder Leave a Comment

The new novel from Susan Crandall is a departure from her previous books and yet pure Susan: rich characters and dialog and a can’t-put down story. Thank you Nicki Leone, Authors Round the South “Author 2 Author” series, Wanda Jewell and SIBA. And, of course, Susan! Jo: The South, to me, is filled with fabulous, […]

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Filed Under: Author Q&A, Writing Advice Tagged With: Susan Crandall, Whistling Past the Graveyard, writing advice

AUTHOR 2 AUTHOR: SUSAN CRANDALL’S Q&A WITH JO MAEDER

September 6, 2013 by Jo Maeder Leave a Comment

From Lady Banks Commonplace Books (“Front porch literary gossip from your favorite Southern bookshops”) where I explain the difference between a Yankee and a Damn Yankee, and more. This is part of the Authors Round the South’s “Author 2 Author” series. Thank you Nicki Leone and Susan Crandall. Be sure to check out Susan’s outstanding […]

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Filed Under: Author Q&A, Books by Jo Tagged With: Author 2 Author, Authors Round the South, Jo Maeder Q&A, Opposites Attack, Susan Crandall, When I Married My Mother, Whistling Past the Graveyard, writing fiction vs. non-fiction

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