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Sharon Maas on The Girl From Jonestown

Sharon Maas on The Girl From Jonestown

The novelist discusses Jonestown Massacre and its impact on Guyana.
Sharon Maas

Sharon Maas, congratulations on the new novel, which deals with an incredibly tragic event, that is the Jonestown mass-suicide.  What impact did it have on you? I was living in France at the time, so the initial reports trickled through only slowly – this was before...

Shari J Ryan on The Girl with the Diary

Shari J Ryan on The Girl with the Diary

The author's relatives suffered terribly in the Holocaust, which has inspired her latest novel.
Shari J. Ryan

Shari J Ryan, many congrats on the new book. How hard was it to find inspiration for the plot of The Girl with the Diary amid the horrors and misery of the holocaust? Thank you so much! It wasn’t hard for me to find inspiration for the plot of The Girl with the Diary....

The Story Behind The Girl with the Diary

The Story Behind The Girl with the Diary

The author's grandmother provided the inspiration for her new novel.
Shari J. Ryan

Sometimes in life when realization hits, making us aware that we don’t know exactly who we are or how we got there. For some, a life-changing event is the only window to a view of our world in a different light. This is where my story began. A person who had been a...