My guest is Diana Stout, an award-winning screenwriter, author,
and former English professor, whose writing led her into academic teaching,
then creating a production company. Published in multiple genres, she has
written romances, magazine articles and short stories, is a former magazine and
newspaper columnist, optioned a Hollywood screenplay, and had two short plays
produced in New York city. She’s served
as a judge for various screenwriting, romance, and academic contests. When not
writing and helping other writers, she enjoys reading, watching movies, bird
watching, researching new topics, jigsaw puzzles, and visiting family and
friends.
About Grendel’s Mother
Late 5th
century, Grendel’s Mother is the
story of social injustice, where a girl is sacrificed to the dragon for
bringing shame to her family and community and finds herself alive, alone in
the wild, where she discovers special skills that enable her to survive, to
give birth, and to raise a baby—deemed a monster—entirely on her own.
An epic fantasy, this book
was ten years in the making from the first night where I wrote 20 in an hour,
realizing I had a story to its publication. The idea was born out of having
studied Beowulf three different times
in various medieval studies classes and having taught a woman’s studies course
where we analyzed books where women didn’t have a voice. Much research and a
forty-page outline later, I was finally able to finish writing the book shortly
before I created my production company, which is how the book became published.
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