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An Interview with Elizabeth Scott

August 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

An Interview with Elizabeth Scott, author of Living Dead Girl
By Pam B. Cole
Cole: Can you talk about how the idea for Living Dead Girl originated?
Scott: Usually, when I get an idea for a story, it comes in bits and pieces. But once in a while—a great while, frankly—an idea will come to me fully formed, [...]

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An Interview with Ashley Rhodes-Courter

July 6th, 2008 · No Comments

An Interview with Ashley Rhodes-Courter,
author of Three Little Words: A Memoir
by Pam B. Cole 
At the age of three, Ashley Rhodes was taken from her biological mother by Florida child welfare system and placed in foster care. Ashley never again lived with her biological mother. Over the next nine years, she lived in fourteen different foster [...]

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