About Shalene Gupta
Shalene Gupta is a writer and journalist. She’s the author of The Cycle: Confronting the Pain of Periods and PMDD, and co-author of The Power of Trust. In the past she’s been a financial specialist for the Department of Treasury, a reporter for Fortune, a researcher at Harvard Business School, and taught English in Malaysia on a Fulbright scholarship. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, ESPN, Fast Company, Fortune and Harvard Business Review among other places. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship and is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School and Johns Hopkins. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Picture a dystopian America divided into two classes, mostly submerged underwater, lorded over by the internet that’s half surveillance and half-AI. The haves are the ‘netted’ who are ‘angelfair’, and live on high dry ground, and have jobs. The have-nots…
It is bleak midwinter, the days are short and dark, and the writing woes loom large. Rejections are piled up at your door thicker than the snowdrifts, the writer’s block is larger than the pyramids of Giza, or you just…
The Little Plot That Couldn’t Based on the classic fairy tale that captured hearts everywhere, The Little Plot That Couldn’t features a large beluga whale trying to get up a mountain using toothpicks as walking sticks. Unsurprisingly it gets stuck….
Muse & the Marketplace season is approaching! But how can you make the most of the Manuscript Mart? Here are ten tips that I’ve gathered from the collective wisdom of Novel Incubator alumni who have survived their own manuscript marts…
1. Reduce ratio of calories consumed to words written. Remember that while Cheetos are orange like carrots, crunchy like carrots, start with a c like carrots, they are not actually carrots. 2. When people ask what the Novel Incubator is,…