Not Too Busy To Write Charmaine Wilkerson on her fiction debut Black Cake
Feb 2, 2022
58:04
Caribbean-American writer Charmaine Wilkerson's incredible fiction debut, Black Cake is a sweeping family tale about inheritance, memories and secrets. Charmaine discusses the layering of multiple timelines, much like the layering of a cake or the layering of conversation. She also talks about channeling the characters, allowing herself to follow them and see where they take her and having a quarter of the book written in various files before she was certain it was a story.
Black Cake is out in the UK on 3rd February 2022 and in the US on 1st February
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