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Processing: How Paul Tremblay Wrote Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep
The author on writing horror and comedy, unusual narrative approaches, and pouring AI anxieties into fiction.
 • Lincoln Michel
Processing: How Hannah Lillith Assadi Wrote Paradiso 17
The author on writing through grief, the ghost of setting, and adding a layer of dream to reality
 • Lincoln Michel
Scavenging in the Media Wastelands: Or, Substacking While Trying to Make a Living Writing
Chatting with John Warner about the state of literary magazines, freelancing, Substack, and vanishing writing careers.
 • Lincoln Michel
Interview: How Naomi Huffman and Julia Ringo Run Hagfish
The editors and co-publishers on literary resurrections, running a hybrid press, and being “nimble and imaginative” as a small publisher.
 • Lincoln Michel
Processing: How Andrew Martin Wrote Down Time
The author on drafting, revision, and being “drawn to stories about unhappy people making one another’s lives miserable.”
 • Lincoln Michel
Processing: How Brandon Taylor Wrote Minor Black Figures
The author on embodied characters, writing process, and how “a novel should show people fighting and striving against and with and for and alongside…
 • Lincoln Michel
Interview: Fisher the Bookseller Explains How Bookstores Decide Which Books to Sell
The ins and outs of how books are bought and sold in bookstores
 • Lincoln Michel
Processing: How Erin Somers Wrote The Ten Year Affair
The author on comic writing, reading drafts aloud, and being "lower than a worm" while writing
 • Lincoln Michel
Processing: How Mads Gobbo and Miles Klee Wrote Double Black Diamond
The authors on literary collaboration, small press publishing, hooking readers with unusual sentences, and the need to “speak other futures into…
 • Lincoln Michel
Processing: Why Benjamin Percy Is Writing a Novel as a Newspaper with Stephen King
The author on writing across mediums, the appeal of physical objects, and working with the legendary Stephen King
 • Lincoln Michel
Processing: How Mattie Lubchansky Wrote and Illustrated Simplicity
The author and illustrator on utopian fiction, science fiction satire, and "skepticism for how things are done and how things can be different"
 • Lincoln Michel
Interview: Editor Sean deLone on How Modern Publishing Actually Works
A conversation about the evolving role of editors, how books get "into shape," and the good and bad of publishing today
 • Lincoln Michel
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