In P. J. Vernon‘s Bath Haus, Oliver Park, a recovering addict from Indiana, has everything he ever wanted: sobriety and a loving, wealthy partner in Nathan, a prominent trauma surgeon. Despite their difference in age and disparate backgrounds, they’ve made…
John Fram’s amazing debut, The Bright Lands, came to my attention when Kelly J. Ford pitched it to me as “Friday Night Lights meets Stephen King, but queer.” I made grabby hands at her, and she allowed me to read…
What is your book about? My book is about a young widow named Jane Wunderly who is traveling to Egypt in 1926. Jane wants to see the pyramids and the dig sites and her Aunt Millie just wants to escape…
This past week I’ve heard from a lot of writer friends who are having a tough time, mostly with their writing. As one friend put it, “hard to write with all this treason.” It got me to imagining a 911-type…
In real life, I am generally good with time. I meet deadlines. I show up Canadian punctual (ten minutes early) to events. And I am usually aware of the date and time thanks to that job I have at MIT,…
It is a truth universally acknowledged that one when becomes a writer paid (minimally, but paid!) for writing, one chucks all of one’s precious notions about craft and art and motivation out the window that has needed replacing for three…