Ask the Author: Meredith May
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Meredith May
Laura, hi!
The Honey Bus took me 10 years to write and three complete re-writes, because at first I wasn't clear on what I was writing about. The first version was a very wounded story focused on my feelings about my mother. I had to mature as a daughter to see that my childhood was just as fulfilling as it was challenging. It wasn't until my grandfather died in 2015 while I was writing the book that I realized how much of a savior he'd been, and how he'd used his bee societies to teach me about human ones.
The Honey Bus took me 10 years to write and three complete re-writes, because at first I wasn't clear on what I was writing about. The first version was a very wounded story focused on my feelings about my mother. I had to mature as a daughter to see that my childhood was just as fulfilling as it was challenging. It wasn't until my grandfather died in 2015 while I was writing the book that I realized how much of a savior he'd been, and how he'd used his bee societies to teach me about human ones.
Meredith May
My agent connected me with a publisher who was looking for a ghostwriter to tell the story of Zahed and Najah, two enemy soldiers in the Iran-Iraq War who chose mercy over murder.
Meredith May
Reading other authors I admire - and strong coffee
Meredith May
A memoir about my beekeeping childhood in Big Sur
Meredith May
If someone gives you a "no," the proper response is: "Next!"
Meredith May
Seeing strangers reading your book
Meredith May
Playing drums, taking the dog for a walk, a good night's sleep.
Meredith May
Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig
Strangers In Their Own Land, by Arlie Russell Hoschschild
Steinbeck, a Life in Letters
Lovers at the Chameleon Club: Paris 1932, by Francine Prose
The Girls, by Emma Cline
The Life of the Bee, by Maurice Maeterlinck
Strangers In Their Own Land, by Arlie Russell Hoschschild
Steinbeck, a Life in Letters
Lovers at the Chameleon Club: Paris 1932, by Francine Prose
The Girls, by Emma Cline
The Life of the Bee, by Maurice Maeterlinck
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