![]() ![]() I often feel that I don’t truly know what the book is “about” until I’m writing posts like these. It’s a bit like trying to explain a dream to one’s therapist: you think the nightmare is about a blinding black fog that swallows you whole, but as you narrate it, you realize it’s really about depression. I do get better at describing my novels after I’ve been working on them, for a while. When I pitched my first novel, vN, I rambled on for a full half-hour before the editor smiled patiently and told me I should work on my pitching technique. But in truth, my pitching game just isn’t that strong. I wish I could tell you that I’d made that pitch right from the start. That’s how I came to think of my latest novel, Company Town, available today from Tor Books. It’s because there’s a whole lot going on in what she writes. But as you’ll see in this big idea, this isn’t (just) because she’s not great at making a fast pitch. Madeline Ashby takes a while to summarize her work, including her latest novel, Company Town. ![]()
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