“The newspaper clipping is in tatters. Folded, yellowed, curling at the edges and mended in places with clear tape, it was tacked to the bulletin board in my office for eight years….” So begins a guest post I wrote this week for In This Light, a blog about the influence of images on writers and writing. Instinctively I knew that this image would help me access the core motivations of my characters in Bird in Hand, who act in comparably indiscreet and scandalous ways …
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The “test” is simple: is page 69 of Bird in Hand representative of the rest of the book? Would a reader skimming that page be inclined to read on? These were the questions posed to me by Marshal Zeringue, who edits book blogs including