Exclusive with Shawn Nocher, author of A Hand to Hold in Deep Water

Exclusive with Shawn Nocher, author of A Hand to Hold in Deep Water By Emily S. Martin (We are proud to present this exclusive interview with Shawn Nocher.) TSM: What provided the inspiration for your book? Shawn Nocher (SN): The first chapter was originally a short story written years ago in a workshop. Over the next […]

The Problem of the Pandemic Novel

THE PROBLEM OF THE PANDEMIC NOVEL Catherine Ryan Howard   On March 27, 2020, Ireland went into lockdown having had a total of just over 2,000 coronavirus cases in a population of five million or so. There had already been a rash of restrictions – the government had announced that pubs were to close mere days before […]