I Make Mine with Duke's
Every Southerner has a recipe for pimento cheese—particular seasonings, preferred mayo brand—and every novelist has a recipe for how to write. This Substack is a cookbook.
Two Cups Shredded Cheddar Cheese
In this newsletter, I will offer practical craft advice, literary criticism, book recommendations, and other cookbook marginalia on literary, crime, and historical fiction. Maybe some film reviews. Maybe a short story or novel excerpt.
Eight Ounces Cream Cheese
Some future topics? A Defense of Cinematic Fiction. An Essay on Free Indirect Style. My hope is that the craft essays and other pieces will offer enough guidance to help fiction writers at all levels of experience create their own recipes.
Half Cup Mayonnaise, Brand of Choice
I make mine with Duke’s, but that doesn’t mean you have to.
Four Ounces Diced Pimentos
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It’s available for preorder from Bookshop, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and, of course, your local independent bookstore.
My other novels include American Pop and Play Pretty Blues, available everywhere.