The Magical Virtual Blog Tour, Or Something
A couple of weeks ago, I was recruited to participate in the Virtual Blog Tour that's been making the rounds on the interwebs in which i was to answer four questions. Here's my contribution: 1. What are you currently working on? I am doing a full revision on my sixth novel, Little Fire , which I thought I would have done a year ago. I never could get it exactly the way I was hearing it in my own head and so I kept rewriting it until finally I think it does what I want it to do. This is the most rewrites I've ever done on a novel, I believe, but probably because it's hugely thematic and covers a pretty big canvas although it takes place over a relatively short period of time (about two years). It has three very distinct settings: Middle Tennessee during the devastating 2010 flood, a road trip across the modern American South--a place of truck stops and dying towns, busy interstate exits and long stretches of nothing but hardcore gospel on the radio, of roadside mem