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On Abandoning Novels I am Trying To Write
Oh hey, I made a Link Tree which feels nice.
Also, my friend Suzanne says Sara is the best Fleetwood Mac song and I tried to fight her on that and claim it is Gypsy, but I just listened to Sara five times and Suzanne is right. Go ahead, see what happens to your eyes when you listen to Sara.
All hail Stevie Nicks and her shawl work in each of these videos and in life. Stevie is the name of my protagonist in my novel, The Not Wives. I’m named after Carly Simon and since I write a lot of autofiction, I needed another diva name for my character.
Just now when I linked to my book on Bookshop, I saw all of the Wives books in their titles. One day, when this shit is over, I want to get all of the wives book authors together and have a party. Some titles include The Wives by Tarryn Fisher, Don’ts for Wives by Blanche Ebbutt (What can wives do right?) The Stepford Wives (iconic) by Ira Levin, The Summer Wives, by Beatriz Williams, Guilty Wives by James Patterson and David Ellis (!!), Three Single Wives by Gina Lamanna, Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (I did not know she had a middle name), The Wives of Henry the VIII by Antonia Fraser, and the Secret Lives of the Four Wives…
