I know! I need a real website. And I need to update this blogsite properly. But in that sense I'm like Gretchen in Kiss, Cry, Reply. I often go basic and let life sweep me up to the detriment of my blog.
So here's how Kiss, Cry, Reply came about. I love epistolary stories so darn much. But I don't see nearly enough of them. I could read them day in and day out. Stories told through letters, primary documents, found documents...I like the mystery, the clues, the twists. I like figuring out what's true or false. I like getting to know characters sideways.
Excitedly, I set out to write one. I had what I thought was a marvelous idea. I'd write a modern epistolary romance, with modern ways of communication, rather than only the letters and journal entries usually used. I really thought I could do this, because of how much of our lives have gone to text...not just in our social communications, but in all ways.
As to deciding which story I told that way...it didn't so much happen like that. It was more that I'd been fiddling with the concept for Kiss, Cry, Reply, and the way to tell it followed naturally. My only dilemma was how purely epistolary to go. I was tempted to return to narrative, oh...a lot. But when I tried that, it changed the fabric of the story too much. In the end, I stuck with documents, even though it took me (who of you will be surprised by this from the quintessential slow writer?) a bunch of years.
And now it's done, and I'm excited to see if anyone else is as into this form as I am.
As for the story itself...it's kinda heart-twisting. But it's also super, super feel-good. And it's weighty, at 114,000 words.
So...there you are! Here's a preview taking you to Amazon (through an affiliate link):
