Author Archives: Guest Contributor

About Guest Contributor

Dead Darlings is happy to share the work and words of our many friends in the writing community, from Boston and beyond.

The Trouble with Endings

By Guest Contributor Kate Leary.  In early September I finished the first draft of the novel I’ve been working on for a year. My kids were spending the week with their grandparents in Albany and my husband was backpacking with…

When Setting and Story Are One

By Guest Contributor Anjali Mitter Duva. In Rajasthan, a desert state in the northwest of India, many five-year old children have never seen rain. In the winter of 2001, as I prepared for a trip to the fortress city of…