As a reader, I’ve always understood how important it is for the characters in a novel to suffer. If the…
Author: Heather Young
After a decade practicing law and another decade raising kids, Heather decided to finally write the novel she'd always talked about writing. She holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars, and is an alumnus of the Squaw Valley Writers Workshop and the Tin House Writers Workshop, all of which helped her stop writing like a lawyer. She lives in Mill Valley, California, with her husband and two teenaged children. When she's not writing she's biking, hiking, neglecting potted plants, and reading books by other people that she wishes she'd written.
Once a lawyer, always a lawyer. That’s what they told me in law school, and what they meant was this:…
This topic — the secrets we’ve kept during the publishing process — has been difficult for me to sort through,…
Ah, the query. The most important 500 words you’ll ever write. Oh, man, I wish that were an overstatement. Here…
When I was a little girl, my favorite room in our house was my father’s library. We lived in a…
There’s been a fair amount of discussion on the Ball this week about MFA programs, and we Debs represent a…
Recently Stephen King wrote an essay for The New York Times in defense of prolific writers. For every Barbara Cartwright, whose…