Sherrie Flick Interviewed on Authorlink

Thank you to Ellen Birkett Morris and Authorlink for taking the time to interview AHP Author Sherrie Flick! This thoughtful interview was full was great questions by Morris, helpful writing tips by Flick, and, in the spirit of I Have Not Considered Consequences, her forthcoming title with Autumn House, a lot of talk about bears.

On balancing whimsy and meaning in her stories, Flick said:

The key for me is that the story shouldn’t be absurd for absurd’s sake. There’s no reason to write it if the point is a bear bartending. I try to keep the internal logic of the story intact. I set up the premise: bear as bartender and then it’s real, not a joke. The story looks at what it means to stay in a place and what it means to leave, how what you say and what you name has an impact, ultimately, on place. But also, the bear makes a mean gimlet.

Check out the full interview here!