Nina Siegal

A fun photo shoot: This month, Esta magazine in Holland is running a five-page spread featuring new women authors who write in a noir style. We all had to “become” our characters for a day, choose a scene from the novel, and play the role of our protagonist. It was fun to get made up as Valerie Vane, and the results were surprisingly Marilyn-esque. You won’t recognize me (except, maybe in the tiny thumb-nail image of my “before” shot on the last page), but it’s fun to look at anyway. Unfortunately, you can’t find the images online, but you can find Esta magazine in any Dutch news shop.