Unfinished
by Amy Snyder
Publisher:
Fiery Seas Publishing
Genre:
Women's Fiction
Why Women’s Fiction
Women’s Fiction is by far my favorite genre because they are
stories about women, generally written, by women.
I enjoy the journey in a women’s fiction novel because, for me, it
is relatable. It’s easy for me to step into the shoes of the main character.
Even if the premise isn’t something that I can specifically relate to, a
woman’s character, a woman’s voice connects with mine.
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I like that when I write Women’s Fiction, I can share my voice
with others.
Women’s fiction approaches women’s issues from a common ground.
UNFINISHED is, on its surface, a story about a writer, but at it’s heart, it’s
a book about a woman who loses it when her nest is emptied. Every woman can
relate to struggling when the epicenter of their universe is rattled. Every
woman can relate to breaking down when they lose something they love.
It is relationships that are at the heart of women’s fiction. It’s
not always sweeping romance, but relationships are what drive the story of a
women’s fiction novel. In UNFINISHED, Mirabelle’s relationship with her husband
is certainly featured, but it’s her relationship to her imaginary friends that
controls the narrative.
This focus on relationships creates characters rich in humanity
and intuition. Reading their stories helps us to better understand people as
humans and how we can all be better, treat each other better.
That’s why I read.
That’s why I write.
BLURB
Mirabelle is a writer who just
can't finish any of the stories she starts. When her twins leave home for
college, they take with them Mirabelle’s sense of identity. As she strives to
adjust to her empty nest she is visited by someone unexpected: a character from
the very first novel she ever attempted to write.
Characters from all of her
unfinished works begin to materialize in her home, in her car, at her job. They
talk, yell, and some even throw things at her. Mirabelle can see them, smell
them, touch them and though she knows they’re not real, she can’t help but
engage them. She created them, after all. They become part of her daily life
and she finds herself alternating between hiding them from and sharing them
with her almost-always-doting husband, Alex.
Some of Mirabelle’s characters
are like good friends, encouraging her to finish something she’s started.
Others manipulate her for their own needs and story lines. Good and bad, these
characters are part of her and Mirabelle discovers she needs to both fix and
finish them before they destroy her life, her sanity, and her marriage.
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Author Info
Amy Snyder began writing when she
realized the strange things that happened in her imagination were far more
interesting than the things that happened in her real life. After earning
her degree in Radio, Television, and Film from Northwestern University, she
worked at a financial brokerage house, a nationally published magazine, an
advertising agency, and most recently, an elementary school as a Math Tutor,
Substitute Teacher, and Library Paraprofessional.
But she’s always been a writer.
Amy lives in Glastonbury,
Connecticut with her husband, two teenage children, and two cats. While she has
been known to talk out loud to the characters she’s writing, she hasn’t had an
actual hallucination…yet.
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