by Jane Devin on 03/11/2011
Caissie St. Onge is an Emmy-nominated comedy writer (she’s worked for David Letterman, Rosie O’Donnell, The Grammy Awards) but more recently she’s the author of a shiny new YA novel entitled “Jane Jones: Worst. Vampire. Ever.” (Slated to be released May 10th by Random House and now available for pre-order through Amazon.com). I met Caissie on [...]
by Jane Devin on 11/23/2008
You know what the problem with you is? You think too much, you’ve got your head in the clouds, you need to come down to earth. You’re too literal, too much a dreamer, you make poor choices, you’re not as smart as you think you are. You never learn, when will you ever learn? You [...]
by Jane Devin on 08/14/2008
Linda spent the first several years of her life being nearly silent–she hardly spoke to anyone. When she entered kindergarten, Linda would not talk, but she would draw and paint . . .and her teachers did not know how to “fix” her vivid, emotional art. Linda has since come out of her shell, all the [...]
by Jane Devin on 08/13/2008
“Nothing in my past had prepared me to start and run a business, much less one that made money. I’m what The New York Times once referred to in an article as an accidental entrepreneur.” — Nikki Hardin, Founder and Editor of Skirt! magazine. If the Brothers Grimm were still around, they would write the [...]
by Jane Devin on 08/08/2008
In 1968, a teenage girl in California, a middle child from a family of nine, had a daughter. She named her Tammy, after a popular song called “Tammy’s in Love”. Tammy Teller grew up in a working class neighborhood, with a family prone to fist fighting in bars, and not inclined towards academics or corporate [...]
by Jane Devin on 08/04/2008
This is part two of a series on Women & Passion. You can read the introduction here. “She has a way of writing songs for anyone who has ever been at the short end of the stick and turning it into a victory. Lyrically, her details are very poetic and brave. Most songwriters hide behind [...]