Striking a delicate balance in Taylor Jenkins Reid’s ATMOSPHERE

"She's famous for this, her worry—her talent for letting her worry do all the work of love" —Tom Junod

There are many ways to set the scene for your novel.

What Clare Beams's THE GARDEN teaches us about navigating the third-person point of view.

What a lioness in Havana can teach us about placing our characters inside history

“Three times in my life I’ve wanted to slap faces and once in my life I’ve wanted to hit someone in the face with a gun.

A Dairy Queen, a Subway, three dollar stores, a strip of half-empty storefronts along Main Street: you could hardly call it a community, where I grew up in rural Kentucky. Or rather, it didn’t feel…

Erin McCoy’s debut novel draws out the uncanny nature of environmental histories of the American South.

UNDERLAKE (Doubleday, 2026) • WRECKS (Noemi Press), 2025), Florida Book Award winner. Click to read The Next Sentence » by Erin L. McCoy, a Substack publication. Launched a few seconds ago.

From a highly anticipated debut that puts tradwife content in its crosshairs, to a sophomore horror novel from one of the genre’s rising stars, to a poignant examination of class and loyalty–April’s n...

A richly glittering debut about the interlocked fates of two women, raised worlds apart, who must join forces on an extraordinary journey, diving leagues beneath the water's surface—and straight...

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