But, as she notes, “It wasn’t really until I had my daughter that I started taking writing seriously. The author says that even in her stage manager days, she wrote down little stories the way some people might doodle.
For starters, as Craig points out, “As a stage manager you’re not supposed to be seen!” There are some differences, though, between crafting a story alone on a computer (or antique typewriter) and telling it with the help of librettos and coloraturas.
Storytelling was a part of Craig’s job at Opera Memphis. Craig Sopranos, Newborns, and “Annabel Lee” “I was utterly convinced vampires were going to come through the window and get me, and I couldn’t tell my mom because she would know I’d read Stephen King books!”Įrin A. “I was way too little when I first read ’Salem’s Lot,” she remembers. The temptation for young Craig was too much those books held the allure of the forbidden. In that library waited tomes appropriate for older, almost-adult readers. Her high school and junior high shared a library, accessible by both wings of the school. Her mother gave her the first chapter books she would read, and with that encouragement, an enduring fascination with stories - as plays, operas, fairy tales, and now her own novels - was set in motion.Ĭraig says her interest was cemented in junior high school, when she discovered scary stories that her parents doubtless wouldn’t have approved of checking out of the local library on their trips there. Her dad used to tell her tales of his own invention as bedtime stories. I have definitely always been a reader,” Craig tells me over the phone. Her most recent, Small Favors (Delacorte Press), is a retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale, and it is beautifully executed, haunting, and perfect for October. These days, her stories are told, not with actors and singers, sets and lights, but with paper and ink, in the pages of her novels. Her love of stories hasn’t faded in the interim in fact, they’re still her bread and butter, her means for making a living. Now, though, Craig lives in Michigan with her husband and daughter and a collection of typewriters. She was the director of production and stage manager at Opera Memphis, where she nurtured her lifelong love of stories with arias and obligatos.
Beyond the Bells, the dark fiends keep.” - Erin A.
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