“Once upon a time, a certain soon-to-be billionaire started the trend of collecting star ratings for products on his new website….Star ratings work great for printer cartridges and air fryers, but are unhelpful when it comes to art, especially books.”…
Next Chapters is a biweekly feature spotlighting graduates of GrubStreet’s Novel Incubator program, which has been running since 2010. Novel Incubator Year: 1 Current project: Paper Planes, a graphic novel What are you reading now? I’m reading Real Bad Things…
We’re over halfway through the 7am Novelist’s 50-day writing challenge, which means we should all be halfway through our books! I’m kidding, of course. If you’re like me, you’re still on the dark side of the mountain, waiting to reach…
I’m not normally a morning person, but Michelle Hoover’s free webinar series and podcast, The 7am Novelist, just might convert me. Every morning at 7am, for 50 days, Hoover inspires us to get writing by discussing novel writing craft with…
In 2010, we first followed Meghan Chase into Faeryland on a journey to retrieve her kidnapped brother in the YA fantasy, The Iron King (Harper Collins). Now, 12 years later, we will follow her a final time with The Iron…
In Kelly J. Ford’s gripping Southern noir, Real Bad Things, Jane Mooney returns to her Arkansas hometown after a body that might be the abusive stepfather she confessed to murdering 25 years ago surfaces in a river. The police were…