by Gemma Snow | Jun 1, 2020 | Author, Books, Friends, Inspiration, Writing
This panel was hosted in summer of 2018, before I moved to Nashville. I briefly considered making edits to this post, but the truth is that more remains the same than has changed in these years of fighting for equal representation, opportunity, and support, and so I...
by Gemma Snow | May 25, 2020 | Author, Blog Challenge, Inspiration, my books, Writing
An MFRW Author Post – and check out the other blogs on the hop! I don’t watch TV news very much. In this world of instant communication, updates, and alerts, I can find exactly the news I’m looking for when I want it, no talking heads, no nothing new to reports. With...
by Gemma Snow | May 18, 2020 | Author, Blog Challenge, Friends, Inspiration
An MFRW Post – and check out the other blogs on the hop! By the time I was nineteen, I’d been living on my own in Boston for two years, achieving high grades, working two jobs and rooming with women that would become my best friends. I thought I knew a few...
by Gemma Snow | May 11, 2020 | Author, Blog Challenge, Inspiration
An MFRW Author Post – And check out the other blogs on the hop! I killed my sage. My mother, a formally-trained botanist who owned her own organic gardening company for several years, tells me that sage is very hard to kill. I tell her I killed it. She says I...
by Gemma Snow | May 6, 2020 | Author, Blog Challenge, Books, Inspiration, my books, Writing
An MFRW Author Post – And check out the other blogs on the hop! If you’ve been around the writing world for awhile, chances are that you’ve heard someone refer to character interviews. To the outsider, that idea may seem a little foreign and definitely strange –...
by Gemma Snow | Apr 27, 2020 | Author, Blog Challenge, Books, Inspiration, my books
An MFRW Author Post – And check out the other blogs on the hop! At the moment, we are isolated in a 749 square-foot apartment in downtown Nashville and I am grateful every day for my balcony garden. I have spent hours and hours cultivating a green space in an...
by Gemma Snow | Apr 20, 2020 | Author, Blog Challenge, Books, Inspiration, my books, Writing
An MFRW Author Post – and check out the other blogs on the hop! At the risk of coming across as a cliche, I’m a Jersey Girl. You can take the girl out of Jersey (and drop her off in Nashville, for example) and she’ll still talk big, fast, and loud. I swear...
by Gemma Snow | Apr 13, 2020 | Author, Blog Challenge, Humor, Inspiration
An MFRW Author Post – And check out the other blogs on the hop! While I do love the occasional Target perusal (and subsequent coffee break) and my favorite book shop is the warehouse of second-hand stories where I always come home arms loaded, I do most...
by Gemma Snow | Apr 6, 2020 | Blog Challenge, Inspiration, my books, Writing
Dinner Over Athens We look down at the ancient city below us and we eat delicious foreign fare, fresh fish from the sea we can see, sauces made with fresh vegetables, wine from local vineyards. We are hundreds of feet above Athens, the air as fresh as...
by Gemma Snow | Mar 30, 2020 | Author, Blog Challenge, Inspiration, my books, Writing
An MFRW Author Post – And check out the other blogs on the hop! I’m a creative person. I come from a creative family, artists, designers, gardeners, actors. We love expressions, ideas, genuine curiosity and conversation that keeps us up too late. I’ve always...