There were also books about women who thought they were fat, and were fretting about ten or twenty extra pounds, whose bodies and whose experiences did not match my own. There were a lot of books with fat heroines who magically lost weight (I say ‘magically’ because God knows if the diet they used existed in real life, I would have found it), and only then got to meet Prince Charming. When I wrote my first book, I was just turning thirty, and I had spent most of the previous decade on a diet. Toni Morrison has a quote I love: If there’s a book you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. Everything,” struggle with body confidence at first, before becoming more comfortable in their own skin.What inspired you to write about this kind of journey? Many of your characters, including Bethie in “Mrs. I hope that readers see my characters living those truths, and are inspired to live them in their own lives. There are always messages there, about believing in yourself, about not waiting to lose twenty pounds before your life can start, about knowing that you’re worthy of love and respect. EVERYTHING, is that stories about women are always political. I never sit down and say “this is a story about self-acceptance,” or “this book is about history and the nature of progress.” But what I’ve learned over the years, and, most especially, with writing MRS. I try not to write quote-unquote ‘message’ books. I always want to tell a good story, and give them a main character who feels like someone they want to spend time with, even if she’s flawed or angry or imperfect. My first goal is to entertain my readers. When you start writing a new book, what is your goal? What message do you hope readers take away from your work? I’m sure my mom has it in a box somewhere! I can remember being in first grade, and my teacher giving me extra lined paper and letting me stay in from recess so I could write….and I was in first grade when I finished my first short story, which was about a balloon that flew across the country. Have you always wanted to be a writer? When did you first start writing?Įver since I learned that writing was a thing you could do, and that writers were actual mortals who walked among us, and not gods who spent their days in Mount Olympus’s library, I wanted to be a writer.
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