What is your working title of your
book?
Women’s Hours
Where did the idea come from for the
book?
I was going through some of my various
short stories and realized that many were about women and their various
relationships, so I thought I should write more pieces that fit into that
general theme and voila... a short story collection!
What genre does your book fall under?
Literary short fiction
Which actors would you choose to play
your characters in a movie rendition?
Since it’s a collection of short
stories, I would imagine that any film would be made up of four or five vignettes. For one of the
20-something break-up vignettes, I’d choose Lena Dunham to play the female
protagonist.
And I'd choose Robert Pattinson to play the jerky boyfriend who deserves to be
dumped.
What is the one-sentence synopsis of
your book?
Women's Hours is a short story collection, which explores the various relationships of female protagonists.
Will your book be self-published or
represented by an agency?
Don’t know yet. I need to finish it
first!
How long did it take you to write the
first draft of your manuscript?
Well, as I’m still writing it, the answer
is complicated. Several of the stories were written as stand-alones over five
years ago. I only started to think of them as a collection a few months ago.
I’m guessing it will take me about year to write the additional stories. Or maybe less, if a book contract suddenly appears on the horizon.
What other books would you compare this
story to within your genre?
I’m lightyears away from Alice Munro’s stratosphere of talent and skill. However, if I were to put on my marketing and puffery hat, the work could be considered in the vein of a youthful
urban-oriented Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage.
Who or what inspired you to write this
book?
I’m also working on a young adult
novel, which is a long, long, long way from being finished. When I was writing my
first novel, Fortune Cookie, I wrote short stories when I wasn’t getting anymore
on the book. I thought that working on a short collection at the same time would
help me feel less frustrated with my slowish progress on the new YA book.
What else about your book might pique
the reader’s interest?
Most of the stories are very short, so
they can be read on transit, on a coffee breaks or in the bathroom. Several of them are funny. Or at least, I think so.
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