I love my friend’s kid, who is now a freshman, studying creative writing at university. As a junior-high and high-school student, they wrote stories and sent them to me, asking for feedback. Other than the recent dystopic play about a…
Note: GrubStreet’s Muse and the Marketplace is cancelled this year due to Covid-19. I’ve screwed up so many Manuscript Mart meetings at GrubStreet’s Muse and the Marketplace conference, I’ve been through Hell. I have been disconsolate, heard Satan’s calumnies, been…
Dr. Chavi Eve Karkowsky is a maternal-fetal medicine specialist. That means she is the ‘high risk’ doctor who ends up seeing women sometimes on the best day of their lives but sometimes on the worst day of their lives. Her…
When I got my hands on an Advance Reader Copy of Lily King’s new novel, Writers & Lovers (Grove Press, 2020), I paused – about a nanosecond – before opening it. Our Novel Incubator class had lovingly dissected King’s last…
Award-winning author, Katrin Schumann’s debut novel, The Forgotten Hours, was a Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestseller. Now her second novel, This Terrible Beauty, published by Lake Union Publishing, is listed among SheReads’ Most Anticipated Women’s Fiction in 2020, and…
In The Regrets, the charmingly spooky Valentine of a novel by Amy Bonnaffons, Thomas and Rachel are lost souls who find each other at a Brooklyn bus stop and ignite a passionate affair. It’s your evergreen tale of star-crossed lovers—you…