I have no interview today, but there are plenty others to enjoy from some of my friends. Be sure to check them out and don't forget that presentation proposals are due by tomorrow for KidLit Con so if you are thinking about pitching one, now is the time to do it!

Tessa Gratton at Writing & Ruminating: "I hesitate to say that I love Faulkner, but I do love how Faulkner uses Southern settings, and vividly remember being hot and sneezy from imaginary dust when I read the opening of LIGHT IN AUGUST."

Micol Ostow at A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy: "I mostly did my writing first thing in the morning, so that once I was done, I could leave the house and go to the gym to pound all of the darkness out — running was a particularly good antidote to writing "family." And I wrote slowly — maybe one or two vignettes a day — because, as you say, it was very draining."

Maria Padian at Bildungsroman: "So when Henry was set to go to her tennis camp in Florida, I commented to my teenage daughter, "My editor isn't going to like this. I'm about to abandon Eva in New Jersey!" My daughter, who at age 17 is a pretty incredible "editor" herself, sighed in exasperation, gathered an armload of her own books and threw them on my bed, declaring: "You obviously need a two-narrator novel. Take a look at these." The entire novel changed at that point."

Genevieve Cote at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast: "We French-speaking Quebecers have a reputation for cursing a lot. I don't know if it's true or not, but I can certainly curse along with the best—or worst—of them! Oddly enough, our curses are usually derived from religious words, spelled phonetically. The most common is "tabarnak," but we have quite a few others and often use several at a time."

Vera Brosgol at lectitans: "I didn't have a hard time about being Russian but I was constantly aware that my home life didn't exactly match that of my friends, and a part of me definitely wished it did. Of course it depends on where you live. I went to a high school in Brooklyn where there was a huge immigrant population and being from another country didn't cause problems – at most it just dictated what group you'd be friends with."

And don't forget to check out the Master Schedule with quotes and direct urls to all the week's interviews!

http://lectitans.kimberlyhirsh.com/