If I could just snap my fingers and be anywhere in the world, think of all the time and money I’d save! Also great for those days when you’re dragging but need to get to work on time.Īre you an introvert or extrovert? What’s that best thing about being an (introvert or extrovert)? I love traveling but hate the actual “travel” aspect. It’s things like that that keep me going during the hard times.ĭefinitely teleportation. I’ve also had the privilege of receiving messages from readers telling me how much my book meant to them and their own reading/writing journey. I can’t even begin to explain how good it feels to see the excitement other Filipinos have when they see/hear about my book, and knowing that I’m part of the growing representation of Fil-Ams in publishing. Writing the stories I’ve always wanted to read, and impacting other readers and writers like me. What’s the best thing about being a writer? I came up with the idea for what would become my first finished novel there (it got me my first agent, but it never sold) and when the teacher, Lori Rader-Day, saw my writing and learned it was my first class, she said, “I think you’re a mystery writer.” She invited me to join the Mystery Writers of America Midwest Chapter (which she was president of at the time) as well as Sisters in Crime Chicagoland, and that’s how it all began for me. I didn’t set out to become a mystery writer–I always thought I’d work in kidlit–but that class changed everything. So I literally just Googled “Chicago writing class” and found a one-day mystery writing workshop I could actually afford. Even though I was an English major in college, I’d never taken a creative writing class. I was 29 years old and thought, “Is this really it? Is this all there is for me?” Then I remembered how much I loved writing. I had taught English abroad for years, and in 2015, I had been back home for a year, and was already stuck in a rut. I’ve been interested in writing since I was a kid, but I didn’t try to write anything with the goal of getting published till 2015. Describe your decision to become a writer. Mia’s debut novel, Arsenic & Adobo, released last week, and it’s AMAZING! Hunger is a deeply personal memoir from one of our finest writers, and tells a story that hasn’t yet been told but needs to be.Happy Monday, folks! I’m pleased to welcome cozy mystery author, Mia Manansala today. With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and authority that have made her one of the most admired voices of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are, the less you are seen. In Hunger, she casts an insightful and critical eye on her childhood, teens, and twenties-including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life-and brings readers into the present and the realities, pains, and joys of her daily life.
As a woman who describes her own body as “wildly undisciplined,” Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health.