Crushed by the Crucible
So I did that thing, the very depressing one, where I pulled an old manuscript out of the files with the intention of fixing it. I was confident I knew the problem: it had to be the stakes. The reader…
Category: Craft Discussion
An Interview with Michelle Hoover, Author of Bottomland
Building on her critically acclaimed debut novel The Quickening, Michelle Hoover’s gripping, brilliantly crafted new release, Bottomland, follows the Hess family’s struggle to stay together on the Iowa plains following the mysterious disappearance of two family members during the years…
Friday Feast: Speaking Out About the State of Diversity in Publishing, Working Class Literature, 5 Myths About Having an Agent, Character Agency, and Creative Writing Prompts When You Only Have 10 Minutes
I’ve taken to watching disaster movies on Saturday nights because there’s something satisfying about watching Mother Nature wipe out humanity when we’ve been so bad. This is a result of watching too many political debates and town halls and being…
An Introverted Writer’s Take on Confidence
Ah, writers. We spend countless hours with ourselves in our heads, surrounded by books, pens, and papers. The only warm-blooded thing in the room is a dog or cat, maybe a bird or a fish. Any person in the room…
An Interview with Dawn Tripp, author of Georgia: A Novel of Georgia O’Keeffe
Dawn Tripp is a favorite among Boston-area writers and readers — and for good reason. I first met her at the Boston Book Festival, where I moderated a fiction panel we quickly dubbed “Three Blondes and a Brit.” There we…
Friday Feast: Non-Asian Writers of Asian American Characters, the Lines Between Commercial and Literary Fiction, Writing Without Knowing the Ending, Angela Flournoy Interview, and Books to Inspire Wanderlust
This week, I’m knee deep in PowerPoint, project plans, and Jira tickets, which leaves me little time for writing, revision, or reading the two tomes that sit neglected on my bedside table. Ah, day jobs! But the weekly Friday Feast…