Embracing Writer’s Hygge
It is bleak midwinter, the days are short and dark, and the writing woes loom large. Rejections are piled up at your door thicker than the snowdrifts, the writer’s block is larger than the pyramids of Giza, or you just…
Category: The Writing Life
An Interview with Matt Coleman, Author of A Rocky Divorce
Matt Coleman’s, sharply crafted new detective novel, A Rocky Divorce, is my kind of mystery—funny with a dose of darkness and a killer plot that makes you smile even as you race to turn the pages. Life changes for Raquel…
Writers Share What They Are Thankful For
It’s that time of year when grandma makes everyone go around the Thanksgiving table to name the one thing they’re thankful for. In that spirit, I asked Novel Incubator friends and alums to share what they’re thankful for in their…
Interview with Erin Morgenstern, Author of The Starless Sea
Erin Morgenstern’s latest, The Starless Sea, is breathtaking. The novel unfolds through a mythical, labyrinthian-like plot/world in which Zachary Ezra Rawlins begins as a lost millennial graduate student and ends as a modern-day Theseus. His journey takes him into an…
Baby vs. Book
Do I actually want another baby? Or am I just so full of fear over the prospective publication of my debut novel that I want the purity of focus that caring for a newborn affords? I love babies. Always have….
Finding Stories—and Inspiration—in Music
My husband and I spent two days last month attending a songwriter festival, and you should not feel bad if you don’t know exactly what that is. We didn’t either, which made the ticket price that much more disconcerting. We…