MEDIA COVERAGE
From Interview with One More Page (UK):
Your new novel, Saving Phoebe Murrow, is released on 20th October; please could you tell us a little about it and what inspired you to write it? The story revolves around a cyber-bullying episode targeting13-year Phoebe Murrow. The novel was inspired by an article I read in 2008 about a 13-year-old girl, Megan Meier, who killed herself after being bullied on MySpace. In that instance, the “boy” who initiated the cyber-bullying was actually the mother of a former friend of Megan's, who wanted to know what Megan might be saying about her daughter. It was shocking to me that a mother was capable of such meanness, and I wanted to write a novel to understand how someone could do this. As a latecomer to social media, I was also intrigued by this method of communicating. How MySpace or Facebook or Twitter (and all the rest) could go from being a friendly venue to a vicious and destructive one, and how easily people can make nasty comments when not having to face the person they are aiming their darts at. Click here to read the complete interview! "The Night Peter O'Toole took me disco dancing" by Herta Feely for The Guardian.
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Interview with Newsy:
Interview with Bonnier Zaffre Books:
More videos of interviews with Bonnier Zaffre can be found here.
More Media Coverage:
ST. LOUIS FOX 2 NEWS IN THE MORNING: Interview with Herta NORTHWEST CURRENT: Interview with Herta (p. 10) WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS: Saving Phoebe Murrow book review CHRONICLE ILLINOIS: Cyber-Bullying Exploration THE RANDY TOBLER SHOW (FM NEWSTALK, 97.1, ST. LOUIS): Interview with Herta THE DOLLY MCCARTHY SHOW: Interview with Herta The Bethesda Magazine Herta has also appeared on THE MIKE SCHIKMAN SHOW, CBS RADIO DETROIT, COMMUNITY FOCUS, THE FRANK TRAUTT MORNING SHOW, and a variety of radio stations, including ALT 92.9, HOT 96.9, COUNTRY 102.5, and MAGIC 106.7 |