https://booksbywomen.org/qa-with-kathleen-barber-by-mm-finck/ Sat, 10 Mar 2018 22:54:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://booksbywomen.org/qa-with-kathleen-barber-by-mm-finck/#comment-49130 Sat, 10 Mar 2018 22:54:20 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=20375#comment-49130 I totally agree with your comment about so many books being set in NY or Cali. My debut novel is set in St. Louis and the surrounding area, where I’ve lived since 1986. I did that purposefully because I was intimately familiar with the area and knew I could bring it alive on the page. I’ve had readers say they want to make a list of all the places I mention (I used real places in almost every setting) and visit each one. I didn’t feel I could do that with NY, where I’ve never even been. Now that I have more experience under my writing belt, I write about other places, but am more drawn to southern my roots. My current WIP is set in a fictional small town in South Carolina. Although I’ve never been there either, I’ve learned how to research. Plus I have a friend who spent many years there and he’s keeping me real.

]]> https://booksbywomen.org/qa-with-kathleen-barber-by-mm-finck/#comment-48875 Sun, 15 Oct 2017 19:12:52 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=20375#comment-48875 Interesting comment on how investigative podcasts stimulated the novel.

]]> https://booksbywomen.org/qa-with-kathleen-barber-by-mm-finck/#comment-48841 Thu, 14 Sep 2017 15:12:49 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=20375#comment-48841 […] so delighted to have a Q&A up on Women Writers, Women’s Books today! Thanks so much to MM Finck for interviewing […]

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