Friday Feast: Turkey Day Hangover Edition
Turkey overload? Tofurkey overload? We feel your pain. That’s why we’ve loaded up on links this week that barely require you to lift your head, let alone your hands to hold up a book.
Category: Novels
Scrivener: NaNoWriMo Power Tool
I came to Scrivener the way I come to a lot of things: Oh. Fun. Want. When I wandered into the tea shop to meet my Novel Incubator mentee, Kelly Robertson, she had her laptop open and I saw a…
Friday Feast: Shed Your Leaves, Apples, Words, Sentence Diagrams and More
Ah, mid-October. Time of endless apple-picking social media posts, picked over apple pies in workplace kitchens, apple pies and apple butters and assorted apples in jars that you don’t know what to do with so you give them away as…
Happy Indie Story, Part Six: What’s Next?
It’s the question President Jed Bartlet always asks after every crisis gets resolved on The West Wing. And it’s the question you’ll be asked in nearly every interview and conversation you’ll have while promoting your current book. Your agent will…
An Interview with Anjali Mitter Duva, Author of Faint Promise of Rain
Long-time Boston resident Anjali Mitter Duva’s debut novel takes us to sixteenth-century Rajasthan to recount the birth and coming-of-age of Adhira, a girl born into a family of temple dancers. Duva has woven together strands of her father’s upbringing in…
Friday Feast: First Lines, Last Lines, Whole Novels in One Line and Grammar Rules
With your first sentence, you want to give your readers a good taste of what’s to come in your novel. With the last, a satisfying finish that reflects the whole. Sometimes, it works. Other times, not so much. This week, we…