PI: How do you nurture ideas and see them put down on paper from conceptual to actualization?įZ: With the help and encouragement of my writer friends and colleagues. The book started off as something fun and sexy – I have no idea what it’s turning into right now…įZ: (My writing process is) more methodical than it should be! I get a lot of ideas in the shower – there’s something about the sound of water – then force myself to sit down from (approximately) 10am to 8pm and wrestle these ideas into some cohesive and hopefully entertaining form. It’s about a complicated romance between a flighty grad school student and a single mother who happens to be the parent of the teenager she’s tutoring. Five years later, here I am still.Īs for projects, I’m currently working on a long overdue novel due to some health issues I’ve been dealing with. I met my partner at a language exchange not long after arriving. I wanted to do some Spanish immersion, so I traveled to Spain for a three-month stay. PrideIndex (PI): How did you come to reside in Spain? What projects are you working on right now?įiona Zedde (FZ): It was almost accidental.

This free will be presented virtually click here to RSVP. Her novel, Stud Like Her, is available now.įiona and five other authors will join us on February 25 for Artists in the Afternoon: Beyond Publishing. Her book, Dangerous Pleasures, received a Publishers Weekly starred review and was the winner of an Readers’ Choice Award for Best Lesbian Novel/Memoir. Fiona is the author of several novels, including the Lambda Literary Award finalists Bliss and Every Dark Desire.

Bliss by Fiona Zedde