Joseph Moldover: Don’t Be Afraid To Experiment

Joseph Moldover is a writer and clinical psychologist who lives and works in Massachusetts. His debut novel, Every Moment After , was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2019. His short fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency , Stonecoast Review , MonkeyBicycle , One Teen Story , Typehouse , The MacGuffin , and elsewhere. From 2020-2023 he co-hosted the online program and podcast “Authors Love Bookstores” for A Mighty Blaze. Learn more at JosephMoldover.com , and follow him on X (Twitter) , Facebook , and Instagram . In this interview, Joseph discusses how the connection he felt to his character’s voice helped inspire his new contemporary YA novel, Just Until , his advice for other writers, and more. Name: Joseph Moldover Literary agent: Adam Schear (DeFiore) Book title: Just Until Publisher: Holiday House/Margaret Ferguson Books Release date: October 29, 2024 Genre/category: Contemporary Realistic YA Previous titles: Every Moment After Elevator pitch: Seventeen-year-old Hannah Lynn is on the cusp of breaking free of Evans Beach, Maine, when her nephews are taken by the state, leaving Hannah and her dad as the only people standing between the boys and the child welfare system. Slowly, she finds herself drawn into their lives and confronted with a choice between her own dreams and the needs of two boys she’s come to care for more than she ever thought she could. Bookshop | Amazon [WD uses affiliate links.] What prompted you to write this book? My connection with Hanna’s voice, and through that her character. She’s so funny, smart, and independent, but also very vulnerable, and I immediately knew she had a story to tell. I’m always interested in the question of whose voice is being left out of a narrative, and in this one there are a lot of big voices: Hannah’s father, who is larger-than-life; her sister, who struggles with immense challenges; and her nephews, whose plight drives the action. It would be easy for Hannah to fall between the cracks, which is what has been happening her whole life. Writing this book, for me, was a way to create space […]

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