Confessions of a Non-Voracious Reader
Standard advice to novelists is to read a lot. Of course, it would be ironic to find a writer who does not like to read. It’s the “a lot” where I get hung up. Unlike many of my writing colleagues,…
Category: Books
An Interview with Pamela Wechsler, author of The Graves
Pamela Wechsler’s new novel The Graves, the second in the Abby Endicott series, was published on May 2. It has garnered advance praise from Publisher’s Weekly and Kirkus Reviews, with the latter writing: “Catnip for readers attached to Boston, believably…
Bonding with my Protagonist over a Dirty Secret
I love the time of year when my fingernails are always dirty. Really dirty. Deep under my nails, crusted in my cuticles, embedded in every crease on my knuckles. I love dirt. To be more precise, I love soil. In the…
Show Them the Nutcracker: On Getting to the Point
A few years back, my husband and I went to a Boston Ballet performance of The Nutcracker. Behind us sat a mother and her five-year-old son, who was deeply psyched to be there, wriggling and fidgeting with glee. As soon…
The Big Pitch: Gratitude Over Fear
It’s writers conference season and literary hopefuls all over the country are polishing their pitches, fine tuning their queries. Is the hook sharp enough? Are the stakes high enough? What if I freeze up when I finally meet my dream…
An Interview with Louie Cronin author of, Everyone Loves You Back
Louie Cronin’s debut novel, Everyone Loves You Back, is a coming-of-middle-age novel that explores the comedy and tragedy that occur when competing economic classes collide in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her manuscript won the 2015 Molly Ivors Fiction Prize from Gorsky Press…