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Fall and Other F Words

Fall and Other F Words

by Author-Rochelle Kaplan | Oct 6, 2021 | Author Rochelle Kaplan, Fabulous Fall

Fall is finally here. Thank God. The heat of summer is less and less appealing to me the older I get. I shudder to think I used to find it fabulous to drive to Palm Springs in the middle of summer to lie by the pool all day. Fall is fabulous. Fall ushers in—not in any...
Churning of ideas gets creative process going, and the writing just flows

Churning of ideas gets creative process going, and the writing just flows

by Author-Rochelle Kaplan | Jan 29, 2020 | Author Rochelle Kaplan, fiction writing

I’m often asked by friends and acquaintances how I create the characters in my novels and where my ideas come from. Well, it’s complicated. But, simply put, my brain never stops working. No vacations or sick days. No pauses whatsoever in processing thoughts and ideas....
Vigilantes’ efforts at justice for predators resonates with fictional Lisa Benton

Vigilantes’ efforts at justice for predators resonates with fictional Lisa Benton

by Author-Rochelle Kaplan | Nov 19, 2019 | Author Rochelle Kaplan, vigilante justice

Eternally curious, with an openly dark side that seems to elude even my closest friends, I often seek out morbid news stories. You know, the ones about murder and mayhem. I just can’t help myself! It never ceases to amaze me how depraved, diabolical, and defective we...
Blogless No More: Why writing fiction took precedence over marketing

Blogless No More: Why writing fiction took precedence over marketing

by Author-Rochelle Kaplan | Oct 21, 2019 | Author Rochelle Kaplan, Day of Reckoning, Eve of Destruction, fiction writing, Persona Non Grata

To blog or not to blog; that had been the question I’d been asking myself for the past year and a half. Sadly, whether it was conscious or unconscious, I had chosen not to blog. For that omission, I owe my audience an apology. From this day forth, however, I will...
Author offers “equal opportunity” for evil female characters

Author offers “equal opportunity” for evil female characters

by Author-Rochelle Kaplan | May 5, 2017 | Author Rochelle Kaplan, Day of Reckoning

Sometime last year between waiting for my first copies of Persona Non Grata and beginning writing its sequel, Day of Reckoning, I was listening to the radio and heard a news clip about a young mother and former Mrs. Orange County who’d been arrested for producing and...
Real life “Lisa” in Texas sends perverted relative to jail

Real life “Lisa” in Texas sends perverted relative to jail

by Author-Rochelle Kaplan | Oct 4, 2016 | Author Rochelle Kaplan, Gun control, Persona Non Grata, Persona Non Grata the book

Life Imitating Art “Are you listening to Gary and Shannon?”my husband breathlessly asked when he called me last week, referring to a radio show on our local talk-radio channel in Los Angeles, KFI. “They’re talking about a woman in Texas with almost the exact story as...
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