Jul 28 2023 38 mins
In this episode, I'm chatting with Nicola Harrision, author of two novels featured on Art In Fiction: Laguna Beach in the Visual Arts category and The Show Girl in the Theater category.
Highlights include:
- Origins of Laguna Beach as the story of a woman who had been a Rosie the Riveter in WWII only to be thanked and sent on her way at the end of the War.
- The Pageant of the Masters--a unique art event that's been going almost continuously since 1932.
- The role visual arts has played in Nicola's life as the daughter of two artists.
- Writing a flawed character.
- Reading from Laguna Beach featuring the Pageant of the Masters.
- California Impressionists and the art of the 1940s in Laguna Beach.
- Origins of The Show Girl about a young woman from the Midwest who lands a coveted role with the Ziegfeld Follies.
- Role of the Adirondack Great Camps in the novel and in the 1920s.
- Advice about research methods.
- Description of Nicola's writing routines--writing is a job!
- What Nicola is working on now.
Press Play now & be sure to check out Hotel Laguna and The Show Girl on Art In Fiction.
Nicola Harrison's Website
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Music Credit
Paganology, performed by The Paul Plimley Trio; composed by Gregg Simpson
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