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 Cassandra Spellman | Jun 26, 2021 | Fiction, Music, Writing
I’ve always been a little in awe of the power of music. There were periods of time when I could actually track the happenings of my life through music: a soundtrack to my life, you might say. Even now I hear a particular song and it brings me smack back to...
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 C & C Spellman | May 29, 2021 | About the Authors, Fiction, Writing
Get to know us a little better—as authors and as individuals—through this Q & A! Do you remember the first story you ever wrote? Cassandra: I don’t remember the very first, but I vividly recall a story I wrote one summer during my middle school years. It...
by Cassandra Spellman | May 9, 2021 | Fiction, Writing
Often when Chris and I tell someone that we have co-authored a novel, we get asked the question, “How did you write a book together?” It has been so long now since we started working together, that the idea of not writing as a unit feels strange to me! Our novel...
