SweetSpot Now and Then Promotion Includes Fannie Flagg’s ‘Success’ Story
SweetSpot: Now and Then, Promotion Includes Fannie Flagg’s Success
Like my protagonist in SweetSpot: Now and Then, noted author Fannie Flagg didn’t start out as a writer. Some may remember her as an actress and game show sidekick. But like my protagonist, she dreamed of becoming a bone fide writer someday. Her first novel, published in 1981, debuted without much fanfare. It took until midlife before she enjoyed any success as a writer. I met her at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference after she had achieved significant literary success, Fried Green Tomatoes and the WhistleStop Cafe her springboard. In this short clip, she discusses some of the roots of her writing as well as that of her dear friend, bestselling novelist, Mark Childress’ storytelling process. (video below)
A major subplot of SweetSpot: Now and Then spotlights one tumultuous year in the life of Darlene Robinson, a midlife woman whose lifelong dream of becoming a writer, a dream beyond reach in her young years, she intends to make come true in her hot flashing years. For that reason, writers reading Darlene’s story may find this subplot of particular interest, Darlene attending her first writer’s conference. Like Fannie Flagg, many writers of today have traveled down other roads before finding our way into this writing life. Darlene Robinson was one of them.
FannieFlagg video I videod this the last time Ms. Flagg #keynoted at #SantaBarbaraWritersConference -2018?
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