Virginia Pye

Jun 11, 2024 | writerunboxed.com | Virginia Pye

In my last essay for Writer Unboxed, I made a case for not sharing early drafts. For ignoring other voices, especially critical ones, and blocking out the constant noise of everyday life to protect space for the imagination. I encouraged fellow writers, especially newer ones, to listen to the tentative, inchoate voice within. In this essay, I pitch another approach to the writing craft: reading.

Jan 11, 2024 | shepherd.com | Virginia Pye |Lily King |Louisa May Alcott |Honoree Fanonne Jeffers |Honorée Jeffers

Lily King’sWriters & Lovers is set in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1997, where my own novel takes place a century earlier. It’s a fictional coming-of-age story of a young woman who tries to write her way into adulthood.

Nov 6, 2023 | newsbreak.com | Virginia Pye

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Nov 6, 2023 | lithub.com | Virginia Pye

I’m twenty-two or twenty-three and sitting at the table playing cards with my father and brother. When it’s my turn, I admit I need the rules explained again. My mind is so distracted by self-doubts and worries about the family dynamics swirling around me that I can’t retain a simple game. My father says, as if stating the obvious, “You aren’t very bright, are you?”My brother hears him, and I think my mother across the room does, too. But none of us contradicts this statement of family fact.

Oct 4, 2023 | writersdigest.com | Virginia Pye

Fiction book sales have increased by over 22 percent in the past five years, and it’s commonly assumed that women are fueling the surge. They read more than men and prefer fiction to nonfiction. In fact, the great fiction boom has been led by romance novels. Women’s fiction has become a $24 billion dollar industry and the dismissive term “chick lit” has faded.