Tara Conklin

May 5, 2024 | thenovelry.com | Tara Conklin

If nobody has told you this today, may we be the first to say: please keep writing. There can be many setbacks on a writer’s journey—whether it’s disappointing feedback from your earliest readers, rejection from a literary agent, or realizing that as much as you love your novel, you have to let your manuscript go, the path to publication doesn’t always run smooth. Keep writing.

Mar 31, 2023 | shelf-awareness.com | Jeannette Walls |Tara Conklin |Gina Chung |Catherine Lacey

Biography of X by Catherine LaceyFew mysteries are as compelling as the life of a renegade artist prone to evasion, as Catherine Lacey (The Answers) thrillingly demonstrates in Biography of X. The conceit of this clever novel is that it's a 2005 biography that former crime reporter C.M. Lucca writes about X, her wife, who died in 1996. X was a visual artist, a record producer, a songwriter who worked with David Bowie and a novelist who adopted various pseudonyms.

Mar 30, 2023 | audiofilemagazine.com | Tara Conklin

Kristen Sieh's bright, expressive tones enliven this quirky audiobook, set in 2019. Twenty-nine-year-old Darcy takes a leave from her actuary position and returns to her parents' home in small-town Massachusetts after her husband leaves her. Darcy is surprised to discover that her parents have moved to Arizona without telling her, so as not to upset her.

Mar 29, 2023 | lithub.com | Tara Conklin

I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of a dramatic before/after. What is the single event that separates one period of time from the next? What causes a person, a community, an era to shift from one state to another? Each of my two previous novels played with this division. In The House Girl, an act of violence marks the before/after for my protagonist, Josephine Bell. In The Last Romantics, it’s a death in the family that sends my characters hurtling into the after.

Mar 24, 2023 | shereads.com | Tara Conklin |Julia Bartz |Lucy Score |Crystal Patriarche

Pineapple Street by Jenny JacksonDarley, oldest daughter in the Stockton family, chose to give up her inheritance for motherhood, following her heart but giving up a lot in the process. Sasha is a middle-class New England girl who married into the Brooklyn Heights’ family, only to find herself cast as an outsider. And Georgina, the baby of the family, has fallen in love with someone she can’t have.