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Amy Shearn

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novelist (DEAR EDNA SLOANE @redhenpress 2024 & ANIMAL INSTINCT @putnambooks 2025) / cofounder @thewritingcolab & Red Clover Writing Retreat / writer-unsticker
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The Irish Goodbye by Heather Aimee O'Neill

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By Heather Aimee O'Neill, Amy Shearn, Jenny Jackson, Jessica Soffer
| Pan Macmillan
'A sparkling debut' - Jenny Jackson, author of Pineapple Street Three adult sisters reunited at their childhood home must confront a shared tragedy in The Irish Goodbye – the devastatingly beautiful debut novel from Heather Aimee O'Neill. It’s been years since the three Ryan sisters were all home together at their family’s beloved house on Long Island. Two decades ago, their lives were upended by a tragic accident on their brother Topher’s boat that drove him to suicide.
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How to Craft Weirdly Compelling Fictional Worlds

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By Amy Shearn
| The Forever Workshop
This lesson is part of The World-building Collection with Amy Shearn — check out all the workshops HERE to learn what ALL writers can borrow from speculative fiction to craft vivid and memorable fictional worlds.
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Your MFA Lied to You About Tropes — Here’s the Truth

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By Amy Shearn
| The Forever Workshop
This lesson is part of The World-building Collection with Amy Shearn — check out all the workshops HERE to learn what ALL writers can borrow from speculative fiction to craft vivid and memorable fictional worlds. When I was getting my MFA in fiction writing, “trope” was basically a dirty word. If someone pointed out a trope in your work, you hung your head in shame, knowing they were saying you were being unoriginal, or falling back on cliches rather than fresh, original language and ideas.
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