by C & C Spellman | Oct 2, 2021 | Evil, Freedom
Cassandra was featured in two guest article spots recently! Both articles are based on themes found in our novel, In the Shadows of Freedom, so we thought you would be interested in reading them. The first is called “Shadows of Freedom” and appeared in...
by Cassandra Spellman | Sep 18, 2021 | Book Reviews, Dystopian
A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man’s mind. Who knows what might be the target of the well-read man? Guy Montag, protagonist of Fahrenheit 451, is a fireman, though his purpose...
by C & C Spellman | Aug 15, 2021 | About the Authors, Dystopian, Fiction, Writing
We were thrilled to join A.J. Cattapan recently on Cath-Lit Live! to discuss In the Shadows of Freedom! Find out the story behind the origin of the novel, how it’s different from most dystopian novels, and more! Earlier this summer, Cassandra...
by Cassandra Spellman | Jul 13, 2021 | Book Reviews, Dystopian, Fiction
If people talk about how the United States is politically divisive today, we have something we can learn from Spain in the early 1930s. Jose Maria Gironella’s The Cypresses Believe in God is the Spanish version of the Russian novel: a myriad of characters,...
by Chris Spellman | Jun 12, 2021 | Dystopian, Fiction, Freedom
Our soon-to-be released novel, In the Shadows of Freedom, poses some big political questions. But it didn’t start that way. In its original draft, the novel had a bit more of a superhero theme, with characters with superpowers and no overarching political outer...
by Chris Spellman | Apr 21, 2021 | Dystopian, Fiction
When I tell friends, family, and colleagues that I’ve co-authored a dystopian novel, they sometimes ask things like: “Why dystopian? Isn’t the world post-2020 dystopian enough? Do we really need to enter a fictional world to experience dystopia? Is dystopian fiction...
