Sarah Pinsker: On Reviving the Set-Aside Story
Award-winning novelist Sarah Pinsker discusses how she picked up and put down a story over many years which would eventually become her latest release, We Are Satellites.
Author:
Asimov s and F&SF, as well as numerous other magazines, anthologies, and translation markets. She is a singer/songwriter who has toured behind three albums on various independent labels. Her first collection,
Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea, was released in early 2019 by Small Beer Press.
A Song for a New Day was her first novel. She lives with her wife in Baltimore, Maryland.
5 Tips for Writing About Controversial Topics
Bestselling author Syed M. Masood shares his top 5 tips for how to handle a controversial topic in your work.
Author:
Feb 9, 2021
I might not be the right author for this piece. I just want to admit that upfront.
Yes, my work is considered controversial in some quarters. I mean, my next book is called
The Bad Muslim Discount. Obviously, that was always going to raise some eyebrows.
But I truly don’t set out to be controversial. My fictional worlds are based on the truths I know and have experienced. My goal has always been to tell these truths in the most entertaining way possible. That’s it. It just so happens that there are people holding a wide variety of beliefs on the ideological spectrum who find these truths uncomfortable. That, so far as I am concerned, is more of a ‘them’ problem than a ‘me’ problem.