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Rosemary Porto's avatar

Good morning Jami, in my research for my novel that takes place in the jazz age and burlesque, I found a fascinating dancer who has been with me for the years I’ve been writing. Sally Rand was a creative burlesque dancer in real life who invented and reinvented herself for 50 years. She financially saved the 1933 Chicago worlds fair with her risqué feather dance. I’ve read biographies and followed her legacy on the internet. All this for a secondary character! But what an amazing artist I’m happy to moralize in my story.

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Jamie Danielle Portwood's avatar

Mary Magdalene. The seven demons. The disciple to the disciples. The woman fascinates me. Not the divine feminine that others have embodied her with, but the woman who had seven demons cast out of her and watched her hopes and salvation die horribly. Like, her dark night of the soul. Also, Eleanor of Aquitaine and Elizabeth I and Jane Gray raised in Katherine Parr’s household and Lady Idina Gordon … I might have hyperfixations and easy access to research materials. And all for different reasons. There are so many more, honestly.

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