Joanna Biggar talks “Melanie’s Song” and Thanksgiving Recipes with Leslie Pietrzyk
The most challenging character to write and more in this short and sweet interview conducted by local luminary, Leslie Pietrzyk.
Leslie Pietrzyk's brief interview with Melanie's Song author, Joanna Biggar, is now live on her personal blog.
When author of critical darling Silver Girl (and favorite of many here at ASP) and local literary hero, Leslie Pietrzyk, asks Joanna Biggar to share something about her book she wants readers to know Joanna answers:
"The narrator, J.J., in the first book dedicated herself to finding out the truth about her friends. In Melanie’s Song, she continues on the quest for truth using the tools of a journalist. But she discovers that “the facts” never tell the whole story, that the truth is ever-changing, and only by accepting that can she—can anyone—really grow."
Read the full interview on Leslie's blog HERE
Inside the Industry: The Wonderful World of Galleys
Joanna Biggar’s new book has just gone to galley, but what exactly does that mean?
Fact or Fiction
…And so it is for me, as I send an invented “namesake” into worlds I know vicariously but haven’t lived—Hollywood and hippies, communes and con artists, Woodstock and the Summer of Love. In the opening of Melanie’s Song, J.J. is poised at the edge of the Pacific reflecting on where she has been and where she is going. She is endowed with a deep and spiritual connection to a native place we share, but I am also setting her free to fly into her own undiscovered territory.
Joanna Biggar’s “Thoughts on Books and Such”
Joanna Biggar’s “Thoughts on Books and Such” “It’s a given nowadays that at some point in our distant ancestral past, bipedal and no doubt hirsute forebears marched out of Africa. […]