The Unhappening of Genesis Lee

Cassandra Morris: There's something, a technique that I'm calling circling which is that generally speaking when you've got a list of things, a list of sentences but things your character is noticing whatever it is. So one of the tricks you can use sometimes is to circle back and have the important thing be both the first and the last thing. Let's stop for our book of the week this week comes, it's the debut novel by Shalee McArthur called The Unhappening of Genesis Lee. Cassandra Morris: Just because something is more sparse or more flowery doesn't make it bad or better, it just means you are writing in a different way for a different audience