An interesting character to the reader is going to be one that isn’t perfect. Perfection is boring. Writers should create characters with bad habits or character flaws they just can’t seem to shake. In Joanna Scott’s Follow Me, the main character keeps running from her poor decisions to a new town and a new surname. She’s really… Continue reading Imperfect Characters Make Perfect Characters
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Follow Me by Joanna Scott
 The cover to Follow Me is intriguing. Is the female running to or from something? The first paragraph of the book jacket doesn’t answer the question but it pulled me into the story. On a summer day in 1946, Sally Werner, the precocious daughter of hardscrabble Pennsylvania farmers, accepts her cousin Daniel’s invitation to… Continue reading Follow Me by Joanna Scott
Joanna Scott Blog Tour
Joanna Scott is the author of four novels, including 1997 Pulitzer Prize finalist The Manikin, and a short story collection, Various Antidotes, which was a finalist for the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award. She has received a MacArthur Fellowship and a Lannan Award. She lives in Rochester, New York. On Monday she is on a blog tour for… Continue reading Joanna Scott Blog Tour