This week I’m interviewing Julie Gerstenblatt, author of Daughters of Nantucket, which follows three women during Nantucket’s Great Fire of 1846. Although this is Julie’s debut novel, it’s not the first book she’s written. During our talk she shared that she’s also written a couple of contemporary fiction novels about life in the suburbs, as well as a couple of YA novels that never sold.
I loved hearing how Julie persevered with her writing through multiple agents, rejections, writing and defending a PhD dissertation, and raising young kids to adulthood.
She credits landing on the right idea, her writing group, and her unwillingness to completely walk away from that desire to publish a novel that helped her do what she could in the time that she had. Hers is a story of persistence, community, and belief.
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