Get to Know Our Friend Kate Fagan

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A Conversation with Kate Fagan

A writing tip, book recommendation, and other great insights from Kate that were not covered in our on-air interview, which you can WATCH or LISTEN to now!

For any aspiring writers out there, would you please share a short bit of writing advice?
One of the biggest things that helped me as I started The Three Lives of Cate Kay was challenging myself to consider starting sentences in different ways and see how that changes the voice and rhythm of things. I would often start sentences in conventional ways. For example: “She told me to get out of the room immediately” could become “Immediately is how quickly she wanted me out of the room.” Obviously, this isn’t a perfect example, but perhaps it illustrates the idea.

What is the last book you raved about and what did you love about it?
My most recent “stop everything you’re doing and read this” was IN MEMORIAM by Alice Winn, which seems to have still flown under the radar here in the U.S. I hadn’t read much about WWI, and certainly not from the perspective of British boarding school boys grappling with their sexuality. It’s a fantastic book.

What can you tell us about your work-in-progress?