Martha Conway

Author Website

  • Author
  • Books
    • The Physician’s Daughter
    • The Underground River
      • Foreign Editions
      • The Floating Theatre (UK)
    • Sugarland
    • Thieving Forest
    • 12 Bliss Street
  • News & Appearances
  • Book Groups
  • Contact

Sep 07 2016

What? I thought I was done!

IT’S BEEN SIX MONTHS or more since I looked at my last novel, the one that was “done.” That novel is gearing up to go into production now, and I have a few notes from my editors, stuff to change. As I read through the manuscript for places to cut back or to develop a…

Written by Martha Conway · Categorized: Uncategorized · Tagged: craft, creative writing, creativity, fiction, good books, historical fiction, how to write well, Ohio River, publishing, reading, revision, slavery, underground railroad, writing

Apr 26 2016

What are the Best Rules for Writing?

“Good stories have a quality of authorlessness. The better they are, the more authorless they seem. . . They give a sense of being out there, like facts.” (Janet Malcolm) I have this quotation in front of me on my writing desk, and every once in a while I read it and ponder once again…

Written by Martha Conway · Categorized: Uncategorized · Tagged: craft, fiction, good fiction, good sentences, how to write well, Lauren Groff, Michael Chabon, publishing, reading, Rick Bass, writers, writing, writing craft, writing rules, Zadie Smith

Aug 15 2015

Thieving Forest Anniversary Giveaway

TODAY IS THE ONE-YEAR anniversary of the book launch for my novel, Thieving Forest. Although I can’t remember when I began, exactly, to think about this novel — when I started outlining the plot, or even before that, when several ideas suddenly converged into something that might, one day, resemble a plot — I think it…

Written by Martha Conway · Categorized: Uncategorized · Tagged: fiction, giveaway, publishing, self-publishing, Thieving Forest, writing, writing business

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • 2

Copyright © 2025 Martha Conway · Site Designed by Ilsa Brink