Tag: comedic writing

Next Chapters: Nancy Crochiere

Next Chapters is a biweekly feature spotlighting graduates of GrubStreet’s Novel Incubator program, which has been running since 2010. Novel Incubator Year: 8 Current Project: forthcoming novel Graceland, about a comic road trip involving three generations of women. What book…

Next Chapters: Nicole Vecchiotti

Next Chapters is a biweekly feature spotlighting graduates of GrubStreet’s Novel Incubator program, which has been running since 2010. Novel Incubator Year: 9 Current Project: The Weather Girl, a dark comedy/literary fiction  What writers have most influenced your writing?  I’ve…

Not Just a Joke

Like virtually every novelist, I am happy to complain about the difficulties besetting me with regard to my *~Unpublished Masterpiece~* of a novel. I am confused by whether agents consider it young adult and grumpy about their desire to change…