Jacqueline T. Lynch - novelist, playwright, historian, and blogger.
Jacqueline T. Lynch’s novels, short stories, and non-fiction history books are available online as eBooks and in paperback. Several of her plays have been published and produced around the U.S., Canada, and one of which, Child’s Play, was translated into Dutch and performed several times in the Netherlands. Her drama One Good Turn premiered as a winner of the 2011 Northern Kentucky University Y.E.S. Festival. Her one-act comedy In Memory of Trixie Gazelle was chosen as a winner in the 2010 Nor’Eastern Playwright’s Showcase of the Vermont Actors’ Repertory Theatre in Rutland, Vermont. She has published articles and short fiction in regional and national publications, including the anthology 60 Seconds to Shine: 161 Monologues from Literature (Smith & Kraus, 2007), North & South, Civil War Magazine, History Magazine, and writes Another Old Movie Blog on classic films, and New England Travels blog on historical, cultural, and tourist attractions in New England. She also writes a syndicated newspaper column on classic films: Silver Screen, Golden Memories , currently for the 50-Plus Wire Service.
Website: www.JacquelineTLynch.com
Another Old Movie Blog: http://anotheroldmovieblog.blogspot.com
New England Travels: http://newenglandtravels.blogspot.com
Ann Blyth: Actress. Singer. Star. http://annblythactresssingerstar.blogspot.com
I have an essay on 19th century mill girls in this anthology of the history of women in western and central Massachusetts, and am also featured as a subject. Published by The Republican, Springfield, Massachusetts
Press/Media:
My talk on the historical background of my novel Beside the Still Waters for the Amherst (Mass.) Historical Society on December 3, 2021, posted on YouTube.
Podcast - Talk on the film The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) with host Paul Francis Sullivan in two episodes, Part 1 here, and Part 2 here. Recorded in February 2021, posted June 2021.
My talk on the historical background of my novel Beside the Still Waters for the Holyoke (Mass.) Public Library on June 8, 2021 - recorded on Zoom.
Review of Hollywood Fights Fascism at the Silver Screenings blog, November 2020 here.
I was interviewed on the WGBY-TV (PBS) Connecting Point program, May 1, 2019, on behalf of the Chicopee Historical Society on re-purposing old mill buildings in western Massachusetts. Part 1 is here.
My essay on learning to be comfortable with public speaking at Mark Dawson's Self Publishing Formula Blog - January 4, 2019.
Review of Ann Blyth: Actress. Singer. Star. - at author David C. Tucker's blog. August 16, 2018.
Interview in The Republican (Springfield, Mass.) by Cori Urban on upcoming talk on the Mill Girls - March 13, 2018.
Interview on Pioneer Valley Radio (Springfield, Mass.) with host Bernadette Duncan on "The Writers' Group" - January 5, 2018.
Interview on Comedy and Tragedy on the Mountain: 70 Years of Summer Theatre on Mt. Tom, Holyoke, Mass. - by Cori Urban in The Republican (Springfield, Mass.), April 5, 2017.
Review of my play, Sketching the Soul, as performed by the Hummingbird Theater Company of Rochester, New York - in the City Newspaper, by Leah Stacy, March 20, 2017.
Interview on WGBY-TV (Springfield, Mass.) with Carolee McGrath on Comedy and Tragedy on the Mountain: 70 Years of Summer Theatre on Mt. Tom, Holyoke, Mass. Broadcast March 20, 2017 - available here on YouTube.
Review of Comedy and Tragedy on the Mountain: 70 Years of Summer Theatre on Mt.Tom, Holyoke, Mass. - by Shera Cohen for In the Spotlight - March 27, 2017.
Interview by Don Grigware of BroadwayWorld.com on my books - February 10, 2017
Interview by D. Powers of The Reminder (Springfield, Mass) on talk on Comedy and Tragedy on the Mountain: 70 Years of Summer Theatre on Mt. Tom, Holyoke, Mass. at the Holyoke Public Library - Jan 27- Feb 2, 2017.
Interview with actress/narrator Toni Lewis on production of audio book version of ANN BLYTH: ACTRESS. SINGER. STAR. - here at Another Old Movie Blog - June 9, 2016
Upcoming talk on BESIDE THE STILL WATERS - Reminder Publications, March 17, 2016.
Book trailer on YouTube: ANN BLYTH: ACTRESS. SINGER. STAR.
Feature on ANN BLYTH: ACTRESS. SINGER. STAR. in Chicopee Herald/Reminder Publications July 10, 2015.
Entertainment columnist Liz Smith discusses ANN BLYTH: ACTRESS. SINGER. STAR. in New York Social Diary - June 29, 2015
A review of ANN BLYTH: ACTRESS. SINGER. STAR. by Annette Bochenek at Hometowns to Hollywood, June 16, 2015
A review of ANN BLYTH: ACTRESS. SINGER. STAR. by Laura Grieve at Laura's Miscellaneous Musings, June 14, 2015.
A review of ANN BLYTH: ACTRESS. SINGER. STAR. by Amanda at Old Hollywood Films blog, June 11 2015.
An audio interview on YouTube with Jim Junot of The Junot Files on ANN BLTYH: ACTRESS. SINGER. STAR. June 11, 2015.
A review of ANN BLYTH: ACTRESS. SINGER. STAR. by Deborah Thomas at Java's Journey, June 5, 2015 - http://widescreenworld.blogspot.com/2015/06/blyth-spirit-jacqueline-t-lynch-q-and-a.html
An interview with Rich of Wide Screen World on my book ANN BLYTH: ACTRESS. SINGER. STAR. June 5, 2015 - http://widescreenworld.blogspot.com/2015/06/blyth-spirit-jacqueline-t-lynch-q-and-a.html
A review of my book on the career of Ann Blyth -- ANN BLYTH: ACTRESS. SINGER. STAR. at Silver Screenings blog - June 4 2015: http://silverscreenings.org/2015/06/04/who-on-earth-was-ann-blyth/
An interview and except from ANN BLYTH: ACTRESS. SINGER. STAR. at Vienna's Classic Hollywood, June 4, 2015 - https://dancinglady39.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/ann-blyth-actresssingerstar/
Feature story on my novel THE CURRENT RATE OF EXCHANGE at The Chicopee Herald, October 31, 2014 edition, also online here: http://www.thereminder.com/localnews/chicopee/chicopeeauthorrele/
REVIEW: MOVIES IN OUR TIME - at Silver Scene blog by the Metzinger Sisters - August 28, 2014 - http://silverscenesblog.blogspot.com/2014/08/movies-in-our-time-hollywood-mirrors.html
RADIO - interviewed by John Losh II on the Losh-man's Hollywood Classic program Sunday, August 24, 2014. Discussing Ann Blyth, movies, books & more. http://www.1027thehog.com/ , 102.7 FM-Excelsior Springs, Missouri.
Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Mass. - Springfield (Mass) Republican May 17, 2014, available online here.
Meet Me in Nuthatch reviewed at Wide Screen World (October 2013)
Cadmium Yellow, Blood Red review at
The Self-Taught Cook (July 2013)
Guest post on writing about the post-wear era for mystery series at Brooke
Blogs (June 2013)
Cadmium Yellow, Blood Red reviewed
by Mason at Thoughts in Progress (July 2013)
Interviewed by Kate Eileen Shannon
at Rantin', Ravin' and Reading (June
2013)
Interviewed by Omnimystery News blog (June
2013).
States of Mind: New England reviewed on Goddess of
Frugality blog (January 2013)
Beside the Still Waters reviewed by Ruth Hill on My
Devotional Thoughts blog (December 2012)
Meet Me in Nuthatch reviewed by British book blogger
"Beck Valley Books" (December 2012)
Connecticut Bloggers - Double V Mystery series in Connecticut
- (October 2012)
Cadmium Yellow, Blood Red reviewed at "Hide &
Read" blog (January 2012)
All the Days Of" blog - guest post on writing in many genres
(December 2011)
"Review from Here" blog - interview (December
2011)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - interview (December
2011)
"Turning Pages" blog - guest post on writing historical
fiction (December 2011)
Interview at Blogher - (December 2011)
Red Adept Reviews - review of "Constancy" (September
2011)
Robert Frost's Banjo - review of Beside the Still
Waters (April 2011)
Hylander Diner - interview (April
2011)
In So Many Words - review of Cadmium Yellow,
Blood Red (March 2011)
Book Barista - press release/feature (February
2011)
Kindle Nation - press release/feaure (January
2011)
Robert Frost's Banjo blog - interview - (November
2010)
MotherLode blog - review - (November
2010)