1--What is the title of your latest release?
DAUGHTER OF DARING
2--What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book?
The story of America’s first stuntwoman, who worked during a time when women ruled in Hollywood.
3--How did you decide where your book was going to take place?
History decided that for me.
4--Would you hang out with your subject in real life?
Absolutely, she was a blast.
5--What are three words that describe your subject?
Bold, independent, ambitious
6--What’s something you learned while writing this book?
Early Hollywood was a world of women.
7--Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done?
I edit as I draft.
8--What’s your favorite foodie indulgence?
Bourbon.
9--Describe your writing space/office!
My office is chock full of notebooks and shelves of ink bottles. I write all my books by hand with fountain pens, so it’s all pens and inks and papers.
10--Who is an author you admire?
Mary Roach
11--Is there a book that changed your life?
There are many books that changed my life! Mary Roach’s Stiff showed me that history and science can be fun and accessible, which inspired all my work.
12--Tell us about when you got “the call.” (when you found out your book was going to be published)/Or, for indie authors, when you decided to self-publish.
I had been working on my first book, The Lady from the Black Lagoon, for years, when I finally got the call that Peter Joseph at Hanover Square Press was going to buy it. I actually threw a party because I was so happy. And eight years later, Peter and I are still making books together!
13--What’s your favorite genre to read?
Horror
14--What’s your favorite movie?
Conan the Barbarian
15--What is your favorite season?
Autumn
16--How do you like to celebrate your birthday?
Swimming, vegan cheeseburgers, ice cream cake.
17--What’s a recent tv show/movie/book/podcast you highly recommend?
Somebody Somewhere
18--What’s your favorite type of cuisine?
Mexican
19--What do you do when you have free time?
Read, listen to records, watch movies with my friends
20--What can readers expect from you next?
I’m currently working on my first novel!
The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood’s First Stuntwoman
From Los Angeles Times bestselling author Mallory O'Meara, the exhilarating story of America's first professional stuntwoman, Helen Gibson, who worked during a time when women ruled Hollywood
Helen Gibson was willing to do anything to give audiences a thrill. Advertised as “The Most Daring Actress in Pictures,” Helen emerged in the early days of the twentieth-century silent film scene as a rodeo rider, producer, performer and stunt double for iconic stars of the era. Her exploits were as dangerous as they were glamorous, featured in hundreds of films and serials—yet her legacy was quickly overshadowed by the increasingly hypermasculine and male-dominated evolution of action films in the decades that would follow her.
In this fast-paced and feminist biography, award-winning author Mallory O'Meara presents Helen’s life and career in exhilarating detail, including:
• Helen’s rise to fame in The Hazards of Helen, the longest-running serial in history
• How Helen became the first-ever stuntwoman in American film
• The pivotal and overlooked role of Helen’s contemporaries—including female directors, stars and stuntwomen who shaped the making of narrative film.
Through the page-turning story of Helen’s pioneering legacy, Mallory O'Meara gives readers a glimpse of the Golden Age of Hollywood that could have been: an industry where women call the shots.
Non-Fiction Biography [Hanover Square Press, On Sale: February 18, 2025, Hardcover / e-Book , ISBN: 9781335007933 / eISBN: 9780369746597]
Mallory is an award winning and best-selling author and historian. She lives with her two cats in Los Angeles, where she is at work on her next nonfiction book.
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