Jacqueline Sheehan, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/author/jacquelinesheehan/ Sat, 03 Nov 2018 15:35:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Writing and Cultural Appropriation https://booksbywomen.org/iwriting-and-cultural-appropriation/ https://booksbywomen.org/iwriting-and-cultural-appropriation/#respond Sat, 03 Nov 2018 10:25:43 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=24591 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 […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/iwriting-and-cultural-appropriation/feed/ 0 24591 Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Jacqueline Sheehan https://booksbywomen.org/authors-interviewing-their-characters-jacqueline-sheehan/ https://booksbywomen.org/authors-interviewing-their-characters-jacqueline-sheehan/#respond Sat, 25 Aug 2018 14:18:57 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=23560 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 […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/authors-interviewing-their-characters-jacqueline-sheehan/feed/ 0 23560 Why I Put Dogs In My Fiction https://booksbywomen.org/why-i-put-dogs-in-my-fiction-by-jacqueline-sheehan/ https://booksbywomen.org/why-i-put-dogs-in-my-fiction-by-jacqueline-sheehan/#comments Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:45:19 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=20933 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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