Back With a Brand-New Edition
Thank you for bearing with us as we pulled together a fancier, funkier website. Our hope is that the content will be easier to find, easier to read, and quicker to load. We also implemented some things on the back-end…
Friday Feast: Day of Annihilation, Writer Style
To celebrate the return of Game of Thrones this Sunday, here’s a gif of my beloved Prince Oberyn (Pedro Pascal) annihilating assorted plates of food. There’s more where that came from. I have not yet recovered from his fate. I may…
Writing the (Quiet) Omniscient Narrator by Celeste Ng
If you’re in the Boston area, please join us at Craft on Draft tonight, April 7th, at Trident Booksellers and Café, where authors Celeste Ng, Christopher Castellani, and Daphne Kalotay discuss their point of view choices. Below, Celeste gives us…
Friday Feast: #VeryRealisticYA and Helpful Charts for Writers, Including One with Cocktails
I thought it might be #VeryUnRealisticYA of me to put young adult fiction links in the same post as a chart of fancy cocktails from literary fiction. Do teens drink and read Henry James? Dubious, though I am sure there are outliers. So instead…
Creative Symbiosis
Before I wrote regularly, I made art. My mother was an artist and art teacher, so I guess it was in my DNA. As a child, I drew stories — graphic novels without written words. As a young adult, I…
An Interview with Jessica Treadway, Author of Lacy Eye
By guest contributor, Lisa Borders. A professor of creative writing at Emerson College in Boston, Jessica Treadway’s latest novel, Lacy Eye, was published earlier this month. The novel will also be published in the UK and Australia, and translation rights have been bought…