My new novel The Story Sisters is about the power of stories and the complications of family connections and family mythologies. At the start of each chapter there are pieces of The Black Book of Fairy Tales, a set of stories Elv Story tells to her sisters, Claire and Meg, as a way of giving voice to a truth she feels she must never tell. When read together, these stories add up to become the ...
In the new paperback release of my novel THIRD ANGEL there is a new section included that wasn't in the original hardback edition-- the book written by one of the characters, a children's book titled "The Heron's Wife" -- since my character was a writer, it seemed only fair that readers got to read her book since I refer to it in my own book. Now, in my new novel, THE STORY SISTERS, ...
Is Fiction Hazardous to Your Health??? Is it better to read your way through life, or to live it? One writer asked this question recently and seemed to find that the answer was that fiction had in some ways ruined her for real life, and that Wuthering Heights in particular had made real life unsatisfactory, second-rate. Well, I have my own opinions about Wuthering Heights (see my intro in the ...
