At last month’s Craft on Draft event Michelle Hoover, Emily Ross, and Dawn Tripp shared how truth inspired their fiction. In addition to reading excerpts from their novels and revealing what was influenced by fact, the authors selected the event’s…
I used to be a good girl, a little too good actually. In school I never talked to ‘my neighbors.’ It took years for me to work up the courage to tear that little label off my mattress. But deep…
Stephanie Gayle is the author of the mystery Idyll Threats (Seventh Street Books – September 8th, 2015). Her first novel, My Summer of Southern Discomfort, was one of Redbook magazine’s Top Ten Summer Reads, and her short fiction and non-fiction have appeared…
Lori Ostlund’s debut novel After the Parade follows the progress of ESL instructor Aaron Englund as he builds a new life for himself in San Francisco and reflects on a small-town upbringing in Minnesota. Ostlund’s first collection of stories, The…
Herewith are my scattered and mentally fried moments from this past weekend’s Muse and The Marketplace in Boston. First off, major kudos to Eve Bridburg, Chris Castellani, Sonya Larson, Grant Patch, and all the staff at Grub for pulling off…
For several months, Jeff McComsey, my Flutter partner, has urged me to do a Kickstarter, not only as a way to promote the upcoming release of Flutter, Volume Two, but to relaunch the graphic novel series on the popular crowdfunding…