Writer's Life: From Idea to Bookshelf: Authors Share Their Publishing Stories

The authors discuss their book projects, and the journey from conception to publishing. Join them as they talk about what went right, what went wrong, and what was unexpected.

Michelle Hoover teaches writing at Grub Street and is a full-time writing instructor at Boston University. She has published short stories and novel excerpts in numerous journals, including Prairie Schooner, The Massachusetts Review, StoryQuarterly, and Confrontation. She has been the Philip Roth Writer-in-Residence at Bucknell, a MacDowell Fellow, and in 2005 the winner of the PEN/New England Discovery Award for Fiction. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and published in Best New American Voices. Her novel, The Quickening, will be published by Other Press in June 2010.

Mo Lotman, author of Harvard Square: An Illustrated History Since 1950, has spent countless hours in Harvard Square since first visiting as a 13-year-old. Smitten with the area, he moved to Boston in 1991. Since then, he has been a graphic designer, a writer, a voice talent, an improvisational actor, a musician, an amateur photographer, and a tour guide, with an interest in local history. He currently lives in Somerville, Massachusetts with his dog, Comet. This is his first book.

Nancy Rappaport, author of In Her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her Mother's Suicide, is assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is attending child and adolescent psychiatrist at Harvard teaching affiliate Cambridge Health Alliance, where she is also director of school-based programs with a focus on servicing youths, families, and staff in public schools.