Muse & the Marketplace 2019

Writing a book may be "like driving at night in the fog," but what happens when your book drives straight into a ditch? Or gets utterly lost, or stuck doing circles in the parking lot? Join this lively conversation with authors Celeste Ng and Mira Jacob, as they describe dramatic transformations they made to their manuscripts on the road to becoming bestselling novels and a groundbreaking graphic memoir. They'll discuss how they played with form, invented new structures, threw out entire storylines, and conjured new ideas by necessity. You'll discuss artistic reinvention as an exciting (and not just daunting) task, and what to do when your book becomes something very different from what you initially envisioned. Come with questions!