About Emily Ross
Emily Ross is the author of Half in Love with Death, an International Thriller Writers Awards finalist. She won the Al Blanchard best story award for her story, “Let the Chips Fall”, which appeared in Devil’s Snare: Best New England Crime stories 2024. Her mystery thriller, Swallowtail, is coming from Galiot Press in November 2025. She is a graduate of Grub Street’s Novel Incubator.
Rob Wilstein’s post The (Full) Writing Life got me thinking about how I started writing. There wasn’t a specific moment when I realized I wanted to be a poet, novelist, or whatever. I would spend years working out those details….
Don Draper did so many despicable things during the past season of Mad Men, that not even all the glimpses of his troubled childhood could get me to sympathize. But while watching the last scene of the season finale, in…