From Dud to Delicious: Deesha Philyaw on Raising the Stakes in Fiction
Lit Hub · 9 Oct 2026

From Dud to Delicious: Deesha Philyaw on Raising the Stakes in Fiction

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. In 2006, when I started writing the book that would eventually become my debut novel The True Confessions of First Lady Fr…


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