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: Writing
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…
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…
The Seven Deadly Sins of Debuts
I used to be a good girl, a little too good actually. In school I never talked to ‘my neighbors.’ It took years for me to work up the courage to tear that little label off my mattress. But deep…
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…
Don’t Let Your Writers’ Group Become Group Therapy. Here’s How.
By Guest Contributor Stephanie Austin Edwards New York Times bestselling author Pat Conroy has said to me personally, as well as on the stage at many writers’ conferences, that he doesn’t understand why anyone would want to participate in a…