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Author Interview with Writer Groupie
I spoke with Kim Smith, mystery author, speaker, and all-around writing guru on Writer Groupie. Here’s a short excerpt from the interview:
What book are you reading now?
Currently, I am on vacation and reading travel literature pertinent to places I am visiting. Just before that, I read Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte, an update of Cervantes Don Quixote set in contemporary America. It’s a wonderful hodgepodge of buffoonery, literary parody, social satire, and much more. I have written a long review of it for the Los Angeles Review of Books that will be published in late October.
Until next time,
Brian Finney — Writer
My Review of Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte on LARB
My new review titled “Channeling Cervantes: On Salman Rushdie’s ‘Quichotte,’” is now up on the LARB website. You can read the full article there, and you can also find it on my Writings page. Here’s a short excerpt:
…Rushdie’s novel is much more than a parodic modern recasting of Cervantes’s famous novel. Rushdie has listed some of the genres he has used: “[T]he picaresque, the absurd, the spy novel, the science-fiction novel, the realistic, emotional drama.” He says that he wants to “capture a panorama of our own surreal, metamorphic time.” The novel’s time is virtually the present, post-2016, and who better than Rushdie with his well-known exuberance and inventiveness to attempt to give fictional life to this crazy, scary era in which we all find ourselves. As one character puts it, “It is the Age of Anything-Can-Happen.” And just about anything you can imagine does, including the imagined end of the world.
Until next time,
Brian Finney — Writer
Author Interview with Rita Lee Chapman
I had a delightful chat with Rita Lee Chapman on her blog. She is a fellow author who was also born in London, and she regularly features writers on her “Guest Authors” blog. Here’s an excerpt from the interview:
When you write, do you start with an idea and sit down and let it evolve, or do you make notes and collect ideas on paper beforehand?
Whether it’s fiction or nonfiction I always start with an idea of the book’s shape and progression. I then research the book and structure the results of that research in an outline. The outline is likely to change as I write, more so in the case of a novel where the characters take over and reject some of my outline’s intended actions.
Until next time,
Brian Finney — Writer
Money Matters Blog Features – Part 2
Just last month I posted about blogs where Money Matters was featured. I’m grateful for the bloggers who featured my novel so far, and I’m glad to say that 10 more have done so since then. I hope these posts reach more people so they can enjoy my book. You can click the images below to view them.
Until next time,
Brian Finney — Writer
Money Matters Bookstagram Feature
Bethany, a bookstagrammer with the username @manuscript_madness, has featured Money Matters on her Instagram page numerous times. I am always happy when a reader finds my novel enjoyable. I especially like her aesthetic: simple and classic. You can see the screenshots of her posts below, and you can click on them to view on Instagram.
I post regularly on Instagram as well. You can find me by my username @brianfinneywriter. I hope to connect with you there.
Until next time,
Brian Finney — Writer
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