by Site Owner | May 10, 2016 | Columns, Featured, Writers on Writing
In Their Own Words—Giving Voice to Historical Figures in Fiction I’ve tried to create a collage in A Front Page Affair. I layer historical figures, real places, accurate geographies, actual news, accurate dates and all kinds of period ephemera – like...
by Site Owner | May 3, 2016 | Columns, Featured, Writers on Writing
The Difficult Centerpiece of Shot in Detroit Shot in Detroit is the story a female photographer desperate to find artistic success. Through her relationship with a mortician, she comes up with the idea of photographing young black men who have died in Detroit over a...
by Site Owner | Apr 26, 2016 | Columns, Featured, Writers on Writing
Read Millennial Writers I’m a firm believer that to read a person’s writing is to understand them. Or, when taken with a larger whole, to understand that culture, that place, that zeitgeist. To get kitschy, reading allows us to peer into another’s soul and shows us...
by Site Owner | Apr 12, 2016 | Columns, Featured, Writers on Writing
How To Abandon the Rules and Find Your Voice When a small British press published my debut novel, I knew intellectually I hadn’t reached success. That didn’t stop me from being so emotionally stoked that it felt I had. Immediately I started writing another book. I...
by Site Owner | Mar 29, 2016 | Columns, Featured, The Birth of a Novel
The Birth of a Novel Part 6: Charm School for the Debut Novelist You’re well on the way toward ushering your first novel into the world. It’s been critiqued by early readers, you’ve rewritten and proofread meticulously, and you feel good about the result....