Bookshop Interview with Author Gale Massey (Episode #154)

In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, I’m chatting with award-winning author Gale Massey. Her latest book is titled Rising and Other Stories. This short story collection was ten years in the making. These stories represent Gale’s learning curve and demonstrate how her confidence as a writer as grown over the years. It wasn’t until after curating this collection that she realized her stories shared several themes in common: nature, water, grief and the notion of women (especially girls) taking on the world. This latter theme is also present in Gale’s first novel, The Girl from Blind River, a coming-of-age story about a young girl finding her way through adolescence to the brink of adulthood where she can finally make her own decisions. In this episode, I’ll chat with Gale about her writing journey, how learning to play poker was the spark she needed to write her first novel, and why she believes The Girl from Blind River is the story she was born to write.

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