How much work does your title do to take readers into the story?Visit Michael Chessler's website.
My one-word title Mess does a good job of encapsulating my novel, which is about a personal organizer whose life’s work is tackling physical messes, yet is woefully inept at trying to organize her own internal messes—the tangles of negative thoughts and the overstuffed boxes of suppressed emotions.
What's in a name?
I chose the name Jane Brown for my protagonist because I think you’d expect someone named Jane Brown to be brisk and efficient. Also, the name “Jane” has...[read on]
The Page 69 Test: Mess.
Q&A with Michael Chessler.
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