Ask the Author: Maggie Smith
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Maggie Smith
TRUTH AND OTHER LIES is a work of adult fiction set in 2018 in Chicago. The following are mild but non-specific spoilers. Some contain more specific references but should not impact your reading experience. Please feel free to reach out to me with any questions or concerns.
--strong language
--discussion of rape incident (assault not witnessed by reader)
--abortion (not witnessed by reader)
--mention of a suicide several decades before (not witnessed by reader)
--strong language
--discussion of rape incident (assault not witnessed by reader)
--abortion (not witnessed by reader)
--mention of a suicide several decades before (not witnessed by reader)
Maggie Smith
My sister cut off all contact with my family for fifteen years. I've always wondered what happened to her during that time and why my mother didn't hire someone to track her down.
Maggie Smith
Ah, it's now actually fall, and I'm reading When Ghosts Come Home right now - it's reminding me of Jane Harper's The Dry which I liked. I'm also excited to get my hands on Jacquelyn Mitchard's The Good Son this January. And I was lucky enough to score an Advanced Reader Copy of How High We Go in the Dark by my fellow debut author Sequoia Nagamatsu. I don't usually read dypstopian fiction but this one? It will definitely send you to places you've never been. The closest thing I can think of to reference it is The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell from years ago, which is one of my top ten books of all time.
Maggie Smith
The first thing that came to mind was Narnia - I would love to experience that magical world.
Maggie Smith
My writer's block is almost entirely due to procrastination. If I don't have a deadline, I find others things to do.
Maggie Smith
Easily the supportive community of fellow writers who are generous and intelligent and fun to be around.
Maggie Smith
Study others who write well and work at making your own pages better.
Maggie Smith
A psychological suspense. Logline is: An ambitious ADA hunts down the person stalking her and her teenage daughter only to be arrested for murder when he turns up dead.
Maggie Smith
I was taking my first writing workshop and the instructor gave the prompt to fill in this sentence: "I could never write a book about ..." I immediately wrote down "mothers and daughters" because I don't have children of my own and I had a contentious relationship with my own mother." And then of course that's exactly what I wound up writing about!
Maggie Smith
I looked in the mirror. I wasn't there.
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