Jacqueline Sheehan

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Jacqueline Sheehan's Green Chile Enchilada Casserole

November 23, 2009

Here is a link to Book Club Cookbook who featured my recipe for Green Chile Enchilada Casserole. Enjoy!

www.bookclubcookbook.com/RecipeJacquelineSheehan.htm

When I was writing Now & Then, the main character Anna felt the sting of poverty and lack of food for the first time in her life. She had been transported (more…)

One month writing in a castle

November 16, 2009

Tags: writing, fellowships, Rosslyn Chapel

Right after I decided to start a blog, I went to Scotland for a month-long writing fellowship at a castle and discovered that writing a blog was pretty hard when I had to walk for 45 minutes to get to the nearest internet. So I am back home now and promise to make up for (more…)

October 14, 2009

I am writing from Hawthornden Castle in Scotland. As unbelievable as it seems, I am living in a castle that was built around 1400 and it looks every bit of it. I'm part of a group of fortunate writers who have been awarded a 4 week fellowship.
The strangest thing so far is the vast assortment (more…)

Testing the blog

September 28, 2009

This is the first blog, hopefully of many, that will be published during my residency at Hawthornden Castle in Scotland. But this is the test.

Selected Works

Fiction
Now & Then (2009)
“Spellbinding…an altogether enjoyable adventure with a heavy helping of magic.”
Publishers Weekly
Lost & Found (2007)
“Sheehan eloquently channels both human and canine voices in this bittersweet tale of wounded lives renewed.”
–Suzanne Strempek Shea, author of Becoming Finola
Historical Fiction
Truth (2003)
“Sheehan’s writing is lively and vivid and her feel for historical detail is fine…”
New York Times