SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE: Blogging Helped Screenwriter Write Her First Book

Los Angeles screenwriter Tracey Jackson, will be in the Bay Area on Sunday but she won’t be watching the Oscars.

Instead she will be speaking to The Writing Mamas, at Book Passage in Marin.

Jackson will be promoting her first book, Between a Rock and a Hot Place. It’s about delusional baby boomers who think 50 is the new 30. “Fifty is nothing like thirty,” says the now 52-year old Jackson.

For a first-time author her media coverage has been phenomenal with appearances on The View, The Today Show, local TV and radio and during our interview she received an e-mail request to appear on CNN.

Jackson has been a writer for more than 25 years, most of them as a screenwriter and a television writer. “I would write four films a year and get paid but none got made. But I wasn’t a failure. I was doing really well.”

Read more at SFGATE.com 

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