Ask the Author: Sean Patrick Carlin
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Sean Patrick Carlin
Hey, Jacqui! Thanks for reaching out! Though I've been inactive on my blog all year, I'm pleased to report I've had a very productive first half of 2024 (largely the reason for my hiatus from the blog, as it happens).
I outlined two new novellas over the winter, spent the spring writing the first draft of the first manuscript, and plan to "go to pages" on the second m.s. this coming summer. In the autumn, I'll revise and edit the two manuscripts, then pair them with an unpublished novella I wrote in 2019; all three will be collected in a single volume -- a trilogy of coming-of-age magical-realism stories about 12-year-old boys in the late '80s. Tonally, I'd say these stories are in the vein of Joe Hill's Snapshot and Stephen King's The Body.
On June 24, I'll be celebrating the tenth anniversary of my blog with a three-part series titled "Under the Influence," in which I explore how an artist develops a singular style and voice all their own, then examine ten of my own formative creative influences, demonstrating how they inspired The Dogcatcher. (I'll also talk a bit more about my forthcoming novella collection there, too!) Look for the first essay in that series to post two weeks from today!
Beyond that, everything's swell in my life and in Noo Yawk! How are you?
I outlined two new novellas over the winter, spent the spring writing the first draft of the first manuscript, and plan to "go to pages" on the second m.s. this coming summer. In the autumn, I'll revise and edit the two manuscripts, then pair them with an unpublished novella I wrote in 2019; all three will be collected in a single volume -- a trilogy of coming-of-age magical-realism stories about 12-year-old boys in the late '80s. Tonally, I'd say these stories are in the vein of Joe Hill's Snapshot and Stephen King's The Body.
On June 24, I'll be celebrating the tenth anniversary of my blog with a three-part series titled "Under the Influence," in which I explore how an artist develops a singular style and voice all their own, then examine ten of my own formative creative influences, demonstrating how they inspired The Dogcatcher. (I'll also talk a bit more about my forthcoming novella collection there, too!) Look for the first essay in that series to post two weeks from today!
Beyond that, everything's swell in my life and in Noo Yawk! How are you?
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