Ask the Author: Mandy Haynes
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Mandy Haynes
Hardscrabble Road by George Weinstein
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
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I Am, I Am, I Am (memoir) Maggie O’Farrell
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Distance Home by Paula Saunders
City of Thieves by David Benioff
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
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American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
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Everything David Joy has written, which means a couple will be reread, and I need to catch up on Ron Rash. The list goes on and on!
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
The High Season by Judy Blundell
Everything Happens For a Reason (nonfiction) Kate Bowler
The Sweetest Fruits (nonfiction) Monique Truong
I Am, I Am, I Am (memoir) Maggie O’Farrell
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Distance Home by Paula Saunders
City of Thieves by David Benioff
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
There, There by Tommy Orange
All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenburg
There’s a Word for That by Sloan Tanen
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Everything David Joy has written, which means a couple will be reread, and I need to catch up on Ron Rash. The list goes on and on!
Mandy Haynes
WRITE! Worry about edits and everything else after you've got the words on the page. Don't talk yourself out of it, nobody knows what they're doing until they've done it.
Mandy Haynes
I have a second collection of stories in the works, SHARP AS A SERPENT'S TOOTH - EVA AND OTHER STORIES, and a novel in the first draft stages - WITH A NEW TONGUE SPOKEN.
Mandy Haynes
I've always been a reader. I started reading before I started kindergarten thanks to having a sister that's two years older than me and a mother who loves to read. I think the hook to write was set when I was in the fourth grade. I'd written a paper on the Civil War - I can't remember which battle I'd written about, but I can still see the young soldier who ended up taking center stage. The story broke my heart and I realized that words have power. That stories can do more than offer an escape when you're bored or lonely - they can make you FEEL. I wanted to be able to do that, I wanted to turn a blank piece of paper into something magical.
Almost thirty years (and three lifetimes) later I stumbled into a small writer's group in Lebanon, TN. I met an English Professor, Elkin Brown, who gave me the courage to give it a try.
Almost thirty years (and three lifetimes) later I stumbled into a small writer's group in Lebanon, TN. I met an English Professor, Elkin Brown, who gave me the courage to give it a try.
Mandy Haynes
All over the place. Eavesdropping at restaurants, talking to strangers at grocery stores, watching people in traffic, going through old family photos. Everyone has a story - you just have to pay attention and let your imagination run loose.
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