{"id":2757,"date":"2017-10-16T11:45:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T06:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/?p=2757"},"modified":"2017-10-16T11:45:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T06:15:10","slug":"peek-inside-danielle-steels-workspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/peek-inside-danielle-steels-workspace\/","title":{"rendered":"Peek Inside Danielle Steel&#8217;s workspace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/2017\/09\/danielle-steels-desk-is-unlike-anything-youve-ever-seen\">Vanity Fair<\/a>\u00a0recently did an article on Danielle Steel on account of her new book,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2xRoi8R\">Fairytale<\/a>.\u00a0Steel gave them an inside look at her office in San Francisco.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p data-reactid=\"205\"><a href=\"http:\/\/daniellesteel.com\"><strong>Danielle Steel\u2019s<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0wildly popular novels have made her a household name, and as the founder of the Nick Traina Foundation\u2014so called after her late son\u2014the mother of nine is also an ardent advocate for mental-health awareness. Ahead of her new book,\u00a0<em>Fairytale,<\/em>\u00a0being published next month, take a look at where Steel\u2019s best-sellers are brought to life, at her desk in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<div data-reactid=\"206\">\n<div class=\"callout omfg\" data-type=\"callout\">\n<div class=\"embed image row\">\n<figure class=\"embedded-image\" data-type=\"image\">\n<div class=\"pinterest-link-container\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/59b83d917ebe1e5b9ac7344c\/master\/w_900%2Cc_limit\/l-MAG-1017-Danielle-Steel-My-Desk.png?w=696&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-pin-desc=\"\" data-pin-credits=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-reactid=\"207\">My beloved, partially handmade 1946 Olympia standard typewriter. I\u2019ve written 163 books on this typewriter, and it\u2019s still going strong.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"208\">I love these mementos that my children have given me for good luck. They touch my heart but do not help my creative process. The desktop is so crowded that, when I\u2019m writing, I have to take them off the desk until I finish the book.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"209\">This tall stack of papers is all pending projects.<\/p>\n<div data-reactid=\"210\">\n<div class=\"callout omfg\" data-type=\"callout\">\n<div class=\"embed image row\">\n<figure class=\"embedded-image\" data-type=\"image\">\n<div class=\"pinterest-link-container\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/59b83d92a0ab974b7f514cc1\/master\/w_900%2Cc_limit\/Embed-02-1017-VF-5DES614-04_sq.jpg?w=696&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-pin-desc=\"\" data-pin-credits=\"\" \/><\/div><figcaption class=\"caption callout-image-caption\">\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<div class=\"credits\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-reactid=\"211\">On the walls of my office are framed covers of my books and sayings that I love. One favorite, since I work very late: \u201cWhat hath night to do with sleep?\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"212\">Art done by my children when they were little.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"213\">This magnet says, \u201c#1 Mom,\u201d and was a Mother\u2019s Day gift.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/an-ordinary-life-writing-geeks.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2719\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/an-ordinary-life-writing-geeks-150x150.jpg?resize=115%2C115&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"115\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/an-ordinary-life-writing-geeks.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/an-ordinary-life-writing-geeks.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=115%2C115 230w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/an-ordinary-life-writing-geeks.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=115%2C115 345w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 115px) 100vw, 115px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/nawazuddin-siddiquis-book-an-ordinary-life-a-memoir-to-release-this-october\/\">Nawazuddin Siddiqui\u2019s book,<br \/>\nAn Ordinary Life: A Memoir,<br \/>\nto release this October<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"213\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanity Fair\u00a0recently did an article on Danielle Steel on account of her new book,\u00a0Fairytale.\u00a0Steel gave them an inside look at her office in San Francisco. Danielle Steel\u2019s\u00a0wildly popular novels have made her a household name, and as the founder of the Nick Traina Foundation\u2014so called after her late son\u2014the mother of nine is also an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[271],"tags":[292,64,291,131,139,290,52,103],"class_list":["post-2757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-authors","tag-author-interviews","tag-authors","tag-bestsellers","tag-book-promotion","tag-book-reviews","tag-danielle-steel","tag-writers","tag-writing-geeks"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/peek-inside-danielle-steels-workspace.jpg?fit=900%2C698&ssl=1","author_info":{"display_name":"Writing Geeks","author_link":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/author\/writinggeeks\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/peek-inside-danielle-steels-workspace.jpg?fit=900%2C698&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uhmH-It","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2757"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2761,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions\/2761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}