“We Are All—Every One of Us—Unreliable Narrators”: Alethea Black and Mary Miller in Conversation

Mary Miller (The Last Days of California, Discover Spring ’14)  and Alethea Black ( I Knew You’d Be Lovely, Discover Spring ’11) cover similar territory in their writing: with indelible voices, their characters long for connection, and look to be understood — and understand their places in the world.  In this far-ranging conversation for the Discover blog, Miller and Black discuss starting their writing careers later in life; the differences between writing long form fiction vs. short stories, and for an adult audience vs. a YA audience; and how shifting a story’s POV can electrify it, among many, many other things.