The Quickening

When I posted yesterday, I should have mentioned Michelle Hoover’s book, The The QuickeningQuickening.  I think it is literary fiction at its best.  I could feel the wind and the snow and get a sense of the life of a farm family.  The characters a finely drawn, and the language is lovely.  Read more about it here.

I was interested in it on several levels. Beside the language and the writing, the inspiration came from a journal from Hoover’s grandmother.  I was interested in the translation from journal to novel, partly because my wife Beverly’s grandmother accomplished the same sort of translation of a great-great Cover Cut of Her Jibgrandmother’s journal about Cape Cod and whaling in a wonderful book, The Cut of Her Jib.  See more about that book here.

Author: John Rogers

I have thought of myself as a writer for most of my adult life. In 2011, I became a fiction writer full time. I studied creative writing as an English major in college. Then came family and career. I worked in finance and biotech and did a wonderful stint in Vienna. Now, I have the opportunity to use those experiences as the substrate for my stories. My first novel takes on the world of Big Data and the very timely issue of cyber war. The second uses the manipulation of financial derivatives as impetus for attempted murder during a trip from Vienna to Budapest on the Danube. I have taken writing instruction at the Cape Cod Writers Conference and from The Loft in Minneapolis. I am finding writers’ groups to be very helpful as concept editors, as well as practical advice from the published authors. I am in three such groups. I have taken writing instruction at the Cape Cod Writers Conference and from The Loft in Minneapolis.

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