Erin Fitzgerald

MOST IMPORTANT: Thank you to everyone who was involved with the Barrelhouse Imagine Cabins sessions, especially Stephanie King. That week was chaos for me, but they really helped me put this project on my plate. One overall reread, one reread of the first section where I let myself write some notes. The novel needs work, but what matters the most: it holds up enough overall to be interesting work. I write to make sense of things. When I wrote the first draft, there was a Thin

Once upon a time, I finished a novel draft. WIP title: Redacted Lawn Chair . Genre: Fantasy. Subgenre: Dunno. Length: 150 pages. Too short for sure, but it was the first time I'd tried to write longer fiction since grad school. By the time January 23, 2015 had arrived I was just pleased the main character was where I knew they needed to be at the end. Both of us were happy-tired. How tired? I'd written an unrelated novella during the worst phases of the novel writing. The n