438: The Stories We Tell and the Secrets We Keep in Family Sagas - Interview

Today, Lori is interviewing Fran Hawthorne. They’ll be talking about her new book I Meant To Tell You and Broad Topic.

Fran Hawthorne has been writing novels since she was four years old, although she was sidetracked for several decades by journalism. During that award-winning career, she wrote eight nonfiction books, mainly about consumer activism, the drug industry, and the financial world. 

Ethical Chic (Beacon Press) was named one of the best business books of 2012 by Library Journal, and Pension Dumping (Bloomberg Press) was a Foreword magazine 2008 Book of the Year. She's also been an editor or regular contributor for The New York Times, Business Week, Fortune, and many other publications. 

But Fran never abandoned her true love: With the publication of her debut novel, The Heirs, in 2018 and now I Meant To Tell You, Fran is firmly committed to fiction. She’s at work on her next novel and also writes book reviews for the New York Journal of Books. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

You can find her on her website or follow her on Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Goodreads.

 

In this episode Fran Hawthorne and Lori discuss:

• How to use minor details to show your readers exactly who your characters are
• Why to shift perspective and how to decide when that shift should happen
• When to provide release and when to build tension in a story

 

Plus, her #1 tip for writers.

For more info and show notes: diymfa.com/404