WLT May Third Thursday: “Hot Topics: Pop Culture in Fiction”
Lisette Huerta June 17, 2026
“Books are entertainment. They should delight, and they can delight in serious and comical ways.” – A. Natasha Joukovsky
“Books are entertainment. They should delight, and they can delight in serious and comical ways.” – A. Natasha Joukovsky
“[R]emember how to create joy and safety in your writing process, because it won’t always be an easy thing to reach for.” —Ariana Brown
“[W]hen I process the world, I do it through words.” —Erin Roberts
“[E]very story is about character, and the individual characters in the narrative are what will make or break a story.” —John Pipkin
“Try not to worry about the patterns of an ever-changing market, and focus on the book.” —Taylor Martindale Kean, Full Circle Literary
“Writers who publish are athletes of the word.” —Barbara Jones, DeFiore and Company
“When [writing] works, you feel less alone on either side of it.” —Sara Kocek
“In order to write well, you need to be reading a lot.” —Emma Dries, Triangle House Literary
“Despite the challenges we may face, those of us who call ourselves writers know how to persist.” —Rachel (R.L.) Toalson
“All it takes is one ‘yes.'” —Melissa Rodman, Nancy Yost Literary Agency