By Ericka Taylor
What I found interesting, in writing this book, was my growing awareness that these damaged people are nevertheless united by a strong sense of duty to one another, and that even within their difficult and often hurtful relationships, there is, at bottom, a real love for one another, something inviolable about family bonds. Continue reading
by Evelyn Somers
“At first there was this impulse to undercut [suspense and mystery] with irony to show, I don’t know, that I was too smart and high-minded to mean it, but I didn’t do that, and it became fascinating to try and write the scenes and twists well, to go all in.” Continue reading
by Ericka Taylor
“I wasn’t sure that I could create fiction that adults would want to read. My self-doubt flourishes. I applied to grad school at the University of San Francisco in creative nonfiction, was rejected, and, pissed off, signed up for an intro to fiction class at UC Berkeley Extension. I was terrified, but terror is good.”
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by Joe Schuster
“I had these three different kinds of stories—the “girl” stories, the gritty Appalachia stories and these weird stories—and I thought, “This is what I have. I am just going to throw it out there and see if it’s a book.” Continue reading
by Maddie King
“The words ‘genre’ and ‘hybrid’ actually make me uneasy . . . when you’re writing, the work doesn’t care what you call it.” Continue reading
by Athena Kildegaard
“I really want justice for my characters, many of whom are children, and I want their travails in their world to be acknowledged.” Continue reading
by Evelyn Somers
“I feared the possibility that my potential . . . was a joke or a ruse, or it had vanished somewhere in the wilds of India or acid trips or too much Diet Coke.” Continue reading
