North End: Mystery writer Patricia Cornwell, creator of the internationally bestselling Dr. Somerville: Joan Wickersham ( The News from Spain, The Suicide Index) divides her working hours between her home and Porter Square coffee shops. Plainville: Diary of a Wimpy Kid impresario Jeff Kinney bought the house next door to the one he lives in with his family and converted it into a studio/ Wimpy Kid headquarters.Ĭambridge: Gish Jen ( Typical American, World and Town) and Claire Messud ( The Woman Upstairs, The Emperor’s Children) share a sparsely outfitted space near Radcliffe.
Here’s where the magic happens for some of our top authors.Īrlington: Tom Perrotta ( Little Children, The Leftovers) works in a second-floor home office, surrounded by guitars. Great books are being written at this very second all over Greater Boston. So now you must ask yourself: Am I a morning person? Regardless, real writers still manage to get down to business every day. When you ditch the boss to create your opus, your pajamas may double as work clothes and your toothbrush may gather moss. My toddler loves him, too.” -William Giraldi, Busy Monsters and Hold the Dark The hardest part about writing is getting your energy high enough to get through a chapter without falling apart.” -Ben Mezrich, Seven Wonders Eminem is the artist I return to most frequently. “I play loud music to get myself psyched up and jump around the room. It was perfect, and it worked!” -Susan Stinson, Spider in a Tree “When I was stuck on the final revisions of my last novel, my friend…sent me the song ‘Fidelity’ by Regina Spektor. “I like to listen to music but can’t listen to anything with lyrics, and straight-up classical usually doesn’t put me in the right mood.” -Alden Jones, The Blind Masseuse If your plan is to get famous fast, you’ll want to get familiar with the artists that keep these locals cranking out copy. Here are 10 protagonists drawn from recent books by Boston-area novelists. So who’s the star of your novel? You could mine from your past and offend every one of your exes and family members. Cameron Pierce, the author of Die You Doughnut Bastards and Abortion Arcade, defines his métier as “sometimes goofy, sometimes bloody, sometimes borderline pornographic, and almost always completely out there.” In spite of that, writes Carlton Mellik III ( The Haunted Vagina), the genre has gained significant respect in the publishing industry. This burgeoning genre is ready made for success (and no doubt ripe for a round of spoofs as well).Ĥ. Last year, Christie Sims garnered worldwide attention by publishing several romances involving love affairs between lusty cavewomen and their prehistoric reptilian paramours, with catchy titles such as Taken by the T-Rex and R unning from the Raptor. Skomsvold’s The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am concerns the musings of an elderly widow in Fiona McFarlane’s The Night Guest, an isolated widow is visited by a mysterious stranger Rabih Alameddine’s An Unnecessary Woman concerns a superannuated divorcée who whiles away the solitary hours translating books into Arabic.ģ.
Sad geriatrics are suddenly literary gold: Kjersti A. Clea Simon, who lives in Somerville, has 19 novels about crime-solving pets, including a ghost kitty.Ģ. Massachusetts may be the only state that boasts two prominent pet-mystery writers: Cape Cod resident Spencer Quinn has penned several novels narrated by a dog named Chet, who sniffs out baddies with the help of his human friend, Bernie. In which people are thrust into strange, supernatural circumstances.ġ. Ultimately, your choice of genre will determine whether or not you get on the bestseller list, so choose wisely. It’s far more interesting to announce you’re a writer of dinosaur erotica. It’s one thing to stroll into a cocktail party and tell everyone you’re a writer. What do they have that you don’t? We scoured the publishing world of Boston and beyond so that next year, you too can sign books under a tent in Copley Square. The shame of being unpublished can feel downright catastrophic in October, when the Boston Book Festival parades countless celebrated authors in front of an enraptured audience of thousands. In a town where it’s impossible to go to the grocery store without tripping over a dozen authors-novelists, essayists, academics, sundry technology and medical experts-it can feel mighty lonely when you don’t have a tome to call your own. Boston, the venerated birthplace of American letters, continues to be a literary hub-such a vibrant hub, in fact, that if you’re not working on a book, there’s probably something wrong with you.
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