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Podcast: The 7am Novelist
Episode: Day 25: Character & Event with Katherine Sherbrooke & Lise Haines
Description: To paraphrase Henry James: Character Determines Incident; Incident Reveals Character. Writers Katherine Sherbrooke and Lise Haines explore the complicated but necessary relationship between character and event in your story, how to discover that relationship, and how to deepen it as the story progresses.Lise Hainesâ fifth novel, Book of Knives, is just out from Sourcebooks. Rick Moody says of her work: "Haines is an astute psychologist, a cool, unsentimental investigator of humans, who often locates the hard truths.â Her four earlier books are When We Disappear, Girl in the Arena, Small Acts of Sex and Electricity and In My Sis...