The Challenges of Writing a Teenage Hero (ish) by Ewan Morrison One of the questions I get asked often about my novel How To Survive Everything is: ‘How did you manage to write such a convincing teenage protagonist?’ It’s a lovely compliment. Sometimes, it turns into: ‘why did you write a teenage protagonist?’ or the […]
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Author Q&A with Shelley Blanton-Stroud
Author Q&A with Shelley Blanton-Stroud Could you tell us about your latest novel, Tomboy? Set in the 1930s, Tomboy is about Jane Benjamin, an ambitious young woman struggling to balance her desire to prove herself in the competitive world of gossip journalism against her obligation to family and friends and her obligation to tell the truth. The […]
The Challenges of Storytelling
The Challenges of Storytelling By: Nev March I’m reading Chandler’s The Long Goodbye, and just like that, a line had me tearing up. What was the line? A cop tells Philip Marlowe that he’s been wasting his time trying to clear the name of his dead friend, Terry Lennox. He says, “And he wasn’t much […]