The Grayscale/Overcast Connection
My debut novel Grayscale took years to complete, but was definitely a labor of love. The biggest challenge that I find to completing a work is my interest in the many other stories that are floating in my brain at any given time.
While writing Grayscale, I took many breaks to write short stories, and many of those stories made it into my second work Overcast. A few were written last year, and one was written before Grayscale was even a fully formed concept.
There is a short story in the collection called Porcelain Doll, that won honorable mention at the Philadelphia Writers Conference many moons ago, and was the precursor to Grayscale. If you have read my novel, and you read Porcelain Doll, you will understand that connection.
Other connections – The short story collection Overcast has a similar dark and heavy-hearted mood as my novel. It ends with a similar ambiguity, and a flicker of forward-looking hopefulness.
While writing Grayscale, I took many breaks to write short stories, and many of those stories made it into my second work Overcast. A few were written last year, and one was written before Grayscale was even a fully formed concept.
There is a short story in the collection called Porcelain Doll, that won honorable mention at the Philadelphia Writers Conference many moons ago, and was the precursor to Grayscale. If you have read my novel, and you read Porcelain Doll, you will understand that connection.
Other connections – The short story collection Overcast has a similar dark and heavy-hearted mood as my novel. It ends with a similar ambiguity, and a flicker of forward-looking hopefulness.
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