26 The Boy Next Door and Modern Epistolary

This week I read Meg Cabot’s delightful epistolary novel The Boy Next Door (it’s entirely email) and discuss what makes modern epistolary different from the pen and paper days, as well as who on earth we’re talking to when we write diaries or talk into the void in various ways.

I finished the draft of Summerlands this week (loud cheers) so immediately started planning how to finish Forty Days and Forty Nights, rewrote and published a short story collection called The Worst, and started prepping final edits on the novel The Nerve. What. I can stop any time I want.

40/40 is going to be partially epistolary, like Summerlands, or maybe much more so, I don’t know. Meg Cabot’s epistolaries are some of my favorite things and always make me want to try this fiendishly clever form. We’ll see how it goes.

Come see me at the Bangor Authors’ Book Fair or whatever it’s called this coming Saturday at the Bangor Public Library!

Sacred Cheese of Life!