Then around 2010, I experienced a personal loss and writing about siblings was what I needed. Even though they had a strong presence on the page, it hadn’t occurred to me to give them their own story, their own world. In my thesis, the sisters are secondary characters. Quite a difference from Love Like Sky (my fourth completed work, but first published novel), in which they are members of a loving, blended family and are attempting to win the affections of an older stepsister. G-baby and her sister Peaches then appeared in my MFA thesis, Selah, where the two girls witness a murder. That story was published in a now-defunct literary journal, A Place to Enter. G-baby lives with her grandmother and is awaiting a visit from her father. The character of G-baby (Georgie) has been with me since my first published piece, “King of Soul,” in the late 1990s. Youngblood, whose middle grade debut, LOVE LIKE SKY, was released in October of 2018.
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The product of this work is deduction, and conclusion. This happens without one’s manipulation or interference - if one will just let the mind execute its designed function. It connects and compares and then rotates it all and does it again, and again, and again. The mind interprets these things, it finds relationships, it synthesizes. Every mind has the ability to combine pieces of information, all the myriad shreds and bits and chains of data. A child could have arrived at the same conclusion! Thinking is not the domain of the higher mind. Thinking is not calculating, or solving a problem. Just stop it, man! One doesn’t ‘figure’ things out. “How on God’s earth did you ever figure that out?” Watson exclaimed, mouth agape. Just for fun, here are a couple snippets from my novel, exploring Holmes’ mind: I am currently working on a novel titled The Suicide of Sherlock Holmes, so imagine my surprise when I read the title of your next Mary Russell book! I’ve been a Russell devotee since the beginning, and have moved on to your other books and e-books. She participated in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), an annual writing project where she completed half of a book draft for her first published novel, The Wedding Date (2018). In April 2015, Guillory began transitioning to a career as an author. She graduated in 2002, and later clerked at a Federal District Court in San Francisco for two years before joining a law firm where she focused on security and intellectual property. for two years before attending Stanford Law School. After graduation, Guillory worked in Washington D.C. She then majored in history at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, graduating in 1997. Guillory graduated from Bishop O'Dowd High School in Oakland, California in 1993. In February 2019, her book, The Proposal, was ranked on The New York Times Best Seller list for paperback trade fiction. 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