How To Find Your Voice (For Writers)
Back in 2016, when I sent the first completed draft of The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride to my agent at the time, she said the words I’d been waiting more than a decade and a half to hear: “You’ve found your sweet spot.” She meant a couple things by that. First, she meant I had discovered the kind of story I like to write, and what I would write from then on. Stories of loss and redemption. Stories that illicit an emotional response from the reader. Not crime fiction or science fiction or romance, but what one reviewer called “tissue fiction.” But more