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Crystal K. Odelle
So far 2020 has been … I don’t even know. We started our 2nd year with all kinds of ideas for the future then a pandemic that has thrown our whole Plume plans into… we don’t know. We do know we’re still focusing on our mission, which may now be more important than ever, to celebrate and encourage women writers. We are now going digital and for June 2020 we thought we’d go back to our first Featured Writer, Amy Wallen. Amy most recent publication was a memoir, When We Were Ghouls but she’s been busy working on fiction again– an updated Nancy Drew. Amy tells me she first met this grown up Nancy about 15 years ago. “She was begging me to write her story, but I had so many other books and projects on the fire.” Amy was very hesitant because she I had never written a mystery and knew it was a different animal. She kept getting positive responses whenever she mentioned the idea. “It really rang a bell for so many postmenopausal women, even the ones who had never read Nancy as a girl.” I spent some time interviewing Amy about her new project and life in the pandemic: HOW DID A POST MENOPAUSAL NANCY DREW COME TO YOU? I probably just imagined that like the rest of us she had to grow up at some point and she had such a perfect life I figured she’d be completely screwed up by now. Life just isn’t so perfect, especially if high school was perfect. She’s been a fun character to work with. ARE YOU GLAD TO BE BACK IN FICTIONLANDIA? I love being in fictionlandia. To me, it’s so much more fun. More playful. I can almost be more myself in fiction than in nonfiction. That’s not to say the non is not me, but in memoir I have to be more careful to see that what I’m writing isn’t being led by imagination more than my memory. How can we tell the difference some times! DO YOU HAVE OTHER NONFICTION BOOK IDEAS? I have started a book about my journey with my dad’s dementia. It’s really more about my parents’ marriage. I think. One never knows until it’s written. It’s funny, because if you can’t laugh at dementia then you’re going to go down a very deep depressing rabbit hole. And, my dad is a … Read more
