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Four Agents, Three Books, Two Publishers — Jacinda Townsend talks about Saint Monkey and Mother Country
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In this episode, Jacinda Townsend talks about her award-winning books Saint Monkey and Mother Country.
Along the way we cover:
Fiction writing as coping mechanism
Being the only Black kid at a fundamentalist Christian school in rural Kentucky
Agent-seeking, scarcity model, and dating
When you and your publisher disagree on the book's major theme
Graywolf press
Answering a psychological question with your first draft, and how publishing brings that answer home to your heart
Buy Saint Monkey here
Buy Mother Country here
Find out more about Jacinda here
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