Would give up writing altogether if forbidden from writing female protagonists. Outside of literature, I find inspiration in classical music, opera, and art.

Yes, I know, my head is a jumble, but it works for me. Goolrick’s, A Reliable Wife, often ticks through my head like an incantation: “It wasīitter cold, the air electric with all that had not happened yet.” Flannery O’Conner: I The prologue to Michael Cunninham’s, The Hours. On occasion, for a boost of inspiration, I obsessively re-read Love for Truman Capote’s, Other Voices, Other Rooms. Havisham, is one of my all-time favorite characters. What are some of the greatest influences upon your writing, whether otherĪs a boy, I was obsessed with Charlotte Brontë’s, Jane Eyre. Write what you know write what you love to read. What is the one piece of writing advice, good or even bad, that you have received that has impacted you the most?

I anticipate and look forward to beginning the publication query process by the Place like a plague, unearthing secrets long since buried. The summer the cicadas descended upon the Kind of hurt, when she first tasted music. Year: the summer she killed her daddy with a prayer, when she came to know a good Protagonist, Analeise Newell, looks back upon her eleventh What is a current project you are working on?Ĭurrently, I am in the process of finalizing revisions to my novel, The Cicada Tree.Ī work of southern fiction set in 1956, the story takes place in the fictitious town of

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