Stephanie Finnegan

When a reader asked if the lead character in LOVE, DEATH & SO ON was me, I admit I was a tad taken aback. Since many of the protagonists are based on the doll creations by Robert Tonner, I didn’t see myself as Penelope Brewster at all. Sure, she is fair-skinned and light-haired—and so am I. Yep, she came from Brooklyn. (Ditto with me.) And she is a walking encyclopedia of Turner Classic Movie trivia. Your Honor, I plead guilty to that as well. Still, I didn’t envision myself

Why is it that the sidekick gets the chance to be so much more forthright or foolish or frantic when the plot thickents? I imagine it's because the hero and heroine have to remain at the narrative's center. It's their quest or personal journey that we have to stay focused on as a reader. We have to care about them, of course, and want to accompany them, but their route must be a direct one. They have to get from point A to point B to point C. If they stray, then they take the

I think there was a time when every person in the world knew who Marie Antoinette was. The ill-fated queen, who was so savagely dispatched via guillotine, had a hold on students of history, moviegoers, fashion designers, and the public at large. Two centuries after her execution, she was still a household name and her death was known by ghoulish girls and boys alike. (Think about The Addams Family TV show and its running visual gag of Wednesday Addams and her decaptitated bab

Hey, haven't I written this once before? I don't know about you, but I certainly have had my fair share of those creepy "deja vu" moments when you can almost recall, moment by moment, something that is happening or is just about to occur. You can call it a bit of released psychic energy, a knot in the time-space continuum, or a connection to a past identity, but I've experienced enough of these wacky instances to know that our timeline is not a direct one. In the world of Rob

Check this site soon for my first video post. I'll be discussing past lives, was Marie Antoinette the Kim Kardashian of her day, and my favorite character in the series. #video #dejavu #lovedeathandsoon #marieantoinette #sidekicks #selfless #kimkardashian