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Continue reading “Debutiful Podcast: Shoshana von Blanckensee discusses Girls Girls Girls”Alice Chadwick Interviews Alice Chadwick
Every now and then, I like to ask writers, “Is there a question you’d like me to ask?” I’m always surprised by the types of questions they’d want to ask themselves, so I decided to take the idea of the self-interview and give writers some restraints.
One. Use Who/What/When/Where/Why questions.
Two. Have fun.
Our next Debuti-Self Interview features Alice Chadwick, author of the debut novel Dark Like Under, which explores resilience, connection, and the emotional undercurrents of adolescence. Set in an English school in the 1980s, the novel follows students and teachers as they navigate grief, rivalry, and buried secrets in the wake of a sudden death. Prior to her debut, Chadwick studied English at Cambridge and was a student in City Lit’s selective fiction Masterclass. Dark Like Under is her first novel. She lives in London.
But enough from me. Let’s turn it over to Alice Chadwick.
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My Reading Life: Yrsa Daley-Ward listened to the body, the pulse, the old ghosts while writing The Catch
Yrsa Daley-Ward is the esteemed poet of The How, bone, and The Terrible and now her debut novel The Catch is one of the best books of the year so far. In it, estranged twin sisters are forced back into each other’s lives when a woman who looks exactly like their vanished mother appears in London, unchanged by time. As they clash over the woman’s identity, they must confront buried truths about their past and the cost of choosing oneself.
We asked Daley-Ward to answer our recurring My Reading Life Q&A so readers could get to know her and the books that shaped her life.
Continue reading “My Reading Life: Yrsa Daley-Ward listened to the body, the pulse, the old ghosts while writing The Catch”My Reading Life: The Phoenix Pencil Company author Allison King got through puberty by reading Prince of Tennis fan fiction
Allison King is a software engineer by day and is now the debut author of The Phoenix Pencil Company. Her debut novel, selected as a Reese’s Book Club pick, follows a college freshman who uncovers her family’s secret magic that allows memories to be relived through Reforged pencils, leading her on a journey to recover her grandmother’s fading past. Blending generational saga with quiet fantasy, the novel explores the enduring power of memory, storytelling, and the ties that bind.
King’s short stories have appeared in Fantasy Magazine, Diabolical Plots, and LeVar Burton Reads, among others.
We asked her to answer our recurring My Reading Life Q&A so readers could get to know her and the books that shaped her life.
Continue reading “My Reading Life: The Phoenix Pencil Company author Allison King got through puberty by reading Prince of Tennis fan fiction”My Reading Life: Sympathy for Wild Girls author Demree McGhee wants Bless Me, Ultima to be the classic high school assignment
Demree McGhee is currently pursuing her MFA at San Diego State University, and her debut story collection, Sympathy for Wild Girls, is already on bookstore shelves. The collection is a knockout selection of stories that move between reality and the surreal. McGhee takes readers to places rarely visited on the page, and the stories dance between fever dreams and stark truths.
We asked McGhee to answer our recurring My Reading Life questionnaire so readers could get to know her and the books that shaped her life.
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