Surprise: You’re Writing a Series!
I never thought I’d write a series. After my first book came out I had a few people ask, “Will you write a sequel?” My look of horror might’ve been puzzling. My “God, no!” was less ambiguous. Don’t get me…
Category: Debut Novel
An Interview with Patricia Park, Author of Re Jane
Re Jane, Patricia Park’s Postmodern take on Jane Eyre, transports us from Flushing, Queens to Seoul and back in a quest for personal identity. For Jane, a half-Korean, half-American orphan, Flushing is the place she’s been trying to escape from…
Friday Feast: Advice for Struggling Artists, Submitting Authors & Debut Authors, and London Library Pubs (Just to Keep it Light)
Critics. They’re everywhere: in our writing classes and writing groups, on the other side of an ISP, and sometimes (most of the time) in our own heads. The struggle is real, and this week’s links focus on people who have…
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: Great Books, Writers Over 40, Six Figure Deal Dream Crusher, and Cats Who Don’t Care
Last week, I implored everyone to get busy. Personally, I screwed the pooch on just about every writing goal. Rather than force it, I took a break to catch up on great books. Restorative and instructive! Plus, it motivates me to get…
Getting to Know You: POV Lessons from Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem once said in an interview that he wrote early drafts of Motherless Brooklyn, a first-person novel from the POV of a character with Tourette’s, in third person. The interviewee was shocked. And in disbelief. But Lethem insisted he…