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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
by Author-Rochelle Kaplan | Sep 21, 2016 | Author Rochelle Kaplan, fiction writing, Gun control, Persona Non Grata, Persona Non Grata the book
Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. -Rumi Attila the Hun Lives! I’ve been agitated lately about one thing or another, but nothing in particular. Nothing I can put my finger on. That is, until very recently. That’s when I...
