It's the Rewriting That Makes You an Author

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Author and NPR producer Haili Blassingame joins Bianca Marais to discuss her debut novel, ‘ They All Fall in Love in the End' , a bold exploration of love, non-monogamy, identity, and self-discovery. Haili shares how her own experience in an open relationship inspired the story, how a viral essay led to finding an agent, and why learning to revise transformed her from a writer into an author. The conversation dives into crafting complex, “unlikable” yet compelling characters, using fiction as a way to interrogate political and personal realities, and the importance of sensitivity readers when writing beyond your lived experience. Note: CeCe Lyra is a literary agent at Wendy Sherman…