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The Muse and the Marketplace kicks off on May 1st at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston. In anticipation of the conference, we collected micro-interviews written by authors, agents and editors who will be attending the event. This is the ninth in the series.

Micro-Interview with Roxana Robinson, author of Sparta

The Muse and the Marketplace kicks off on May 1st at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston. In anticipation of the conference, we collected micro-interviews written by authors, agents and editors who will be attending the event. This is the eighth in the series.

Micro-Interview with Sue Miller, author of The Arsonist

Once every few weeks or so we’ll feature our favorite literary links. This week, we're choosing links related to Muse and the Marketplace presenters. As ever, we promise: You’ll laugh. You'll ponder. You won’t get any writing done. 

It’s the most wonderful time of the year – Muse season! The big event is right around the corner. I’m ashamed to say that I’m an English major who has lived in Boston for the past 4 years and this is the first time I’ll be attending (working?) the Muse and the Marketplace conference. However, as a GrubStreet intern, I’ve jumped into the Muse scene in a big way this year.

The winner of the 2015 GrubStreet Book Prize in Fiction, which carries a $5,000 cash award, is Josh Weil of Nevada City, CA for The Great Glass Sea, published by Grove Atlantic