Author Donna Thorland earned an MFA in film production from the USC School of Cinematic Arts, has been a Disney/ABC Television Writing Fellow and a WGA Writer's Access Project Honoree, and has written for the TV shows Cupid and Tron: Uprising. The director of several award-winning short films, her most recent project aired on WNET Channel 13. Her fiction has appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. Her Revolutionary War novels are published by Penguin NAL and she writers urban fantasy for Pocket under the name D.L. McDermott. Donna is married with two cats and splits her time between Salem and Los Angeles.
Her latest novel, the Dutch Girl, is available here and in bookstores natiowide. It is part of her "Renegades of the American Revolution" series of historical fiction.
You have a degree in classics and art
history. Why the American Revolutionary period rather than ancient Greece or
Rome?
I wanted to
write swashbucklers and it seemed to me that the American Revolution was crying
out for stories like that, particularly with a female protagonist.
If you could live during any era in any
place, where would it be, and what is it about that time/place that attracts
you?
