A Boy Like Me Revisited
I wrote and revised A Boy Like Me during the first year of Grub Street’s Novel Incubator program. Two years later, on September 4, 2014, the book was published by 215 Ink. During the summer of 2024, Mike Perkins approached…
Category: Writing vs. Living
Kris Jansma Reveals How “Genius” Authors are Just Like Us in his New Book–Revisionaries
Feeling defeated by rejections from agents and/or editors? Feeling stuck with your writing, wondering if you’re just not good enough? You need to pick up a copy of Revisionaries: What We Can Learn from the Lost, Unfinished, and Just Plain…
Meet Shi Naseer, Author of The Cry of the Silkworm
Shi Naseer’s debut novel, The Cry of the Silkworm, is a spellbinding coming-of-age and revenge story about a young woman grappling with the trauma and loss she endured growing up under China’s one-child policy, in a small rural village where…
Next Chapters: Hilary Isabelle Lahan
Having grown up in Singapore, Kenya, Taiwan, and Jordan, Hilary Lahan can tell you what it’s like to be a “third culture kid.” She also played percussion and steelpan in college ensembles and minored in ethnomusicology. Talk to her about teaching Zumba or dancing in parades!
Interview with E. B. Moore, Author of Loose in the Bright Fantastic
E. B. Moore’s Loose in the Bright Fantastic (available now) follows gray-haired Maggie as she escapes from the hospital, wearing only her johnny, an ancient mink, and her dead husband’s oversized wingtips. She’s on the loose in Boston’s Public Garden where…
Eulogy for an Unpublished Novel
Let’s start with the good news before we get to the complicated feelings: my debut novel Lightborne is coming out next year. And I am ecstatic! Lightborne is a historical novel about Christopher Marlowe, an Elizabethan playwright and contemporary of…