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MaryJanice Davidson
American
Author
Born:
1969
Book
Car
Great
How
Me
Rejection
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Being a writer is great, and being a parent is great, and I hate Marching Band.
MaryJanice Davidson
Great
Hate
Band
Parent
Writer
Being
Marching
Marching Band
I love interviews, meeting fans, teaching workshops, giving speeches... all of it.
MaryJanice Davidson
Love
Fans
Giving
Meeting
Interviews
Teaching
Workshops
Speeches
I guess you could say that no matter what the characters are enduring, I try to make them retain their humanity. Their self-absorbed, grouchy, selfish, aggravating humanity.
MaryJanice Davidson
You
Selfish
Humanity
Matter
Try
Guess
Say
Characters
Could
Retain
Self-Absorbed
Make
Enduring
Them
Aggravating
I own two beautiful homes, and I'm always half-expecting the cops to pull in, seize me with firm compassion, and escort me out.
MaryJanice Davidson
Beautiful
Me
Compassion
Own
Out
Seize
Firm
Always
Escort
Homes
Cops
Two
Pull
I've found I can plunge the characters into whatever absurd, awful situation, and readers will follow as long as the writer makes them seem like 'real people.'
MaryJanice Davidson
People
Will
Long
Whatever
Situation
Characters
Follow
Plunge
Seem
Writer
Absurd
Like
Readers
Makes
Real
Real People
Them
Found
Awful
I once came back from a book tour where sleek black cars driven by nice men in black suits waited for me at every hotel, took me to every signing, brought me back, opened car doors for me. They were great. I was great. It was a wonderful tour.
MaryJanice Davidson
Great
Me
Book
Wonderful
Suits
Car
Black
Men
Doors
Nice
Every
Took
Back
Book Tour
Once
Signing
Brought
Driven
Tour
Hotel
Opened
Came
Were
Waited
Where
I'm more to my family than a wonderful, luminous cook. I'm also a wonderful, luminous butler and a wonderful, luminous chauffer. And checkbook. I'm a luminous checkbook, too.
MaryJanice Davidson
Family
Wonderful
Too
More
Also
Than
Cook
Butler
Luminous
I can't not write funny. It's literally the only way I know how to do it.
MaryJanice Davidson
Funny
Way
Only
Write
Know
How
Literally
I used to be a model and a medical test subject, though never at the same time. And since we didn't have much money when I was a kid, I know how to fish and hunt for my supper. And I used to win awards in speech in high school, which comes in handy when I speak to 200 people at a writers' conference.
MaryJanice Davidson
Time
People
Speak
Money
Win
School
Kid
Though
Hunt
High
High School
Supper
Writers
Never
Since
Know
How
Test
Fish
Subject
Model
Conference
Same
Handy
Same Time
Which
Much
Used
Awards
Medical
Speech
When I first quit my day job, I was terrified. I called my editors and said I'm trying to make a go of this, and they threw every contract at me they could. And for two years, I had a book or an anthology out every month.
MaryJanice Davidson
Day
Me
Book
Job
First
Every
Month
Out
Threw
Could
Had
Day Job
Make
Terrified
Said
Editors
Go
Anthology
Years
Contract
Trying
Quit
Two
I wrote for free for, like, fifteen years; I could redo my parlor in rejection slips. It would be surprisingly tasteful - they use nice paper.
MaryJanice Davidson
Free
Nice
Rejection
Paper
Slips
Would
Would-Be
Could
Parlor
Like
Wrote
Years
Surprisingly
Tasteful
Fifteen
Use
Rejection Slips
I like the idea of federal employees licensed to carry weapons who are also heavily medicated; it just works for me on all sorts of levels.
MaryJanice Davidson
Me
Employees
Licensed
Carry
Weapons
Federal
Idea
Like
Also
Sort
Just
Who
Works
Levels
I'm a sucker for the big, gruff, distant, emotionally closed-off hero who sloooowly warms up to the feisty, awesome, sweet heroine.
MaryJanice Davidson
Hero
Big
Sweet
Awesome
Heroine
Distant
Emotionally
Feisty
Up
Who
Sucker
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