🎙 INTERVIEW: Ambition, Motherhood, and the Double Life of a Novel with Rebecca Fallon
​** This is a LIVE interview with Rebecca Fallon about the craft of writing and reality of building a creative career.**
​How do you write about ambition without vilifying it? How do you build a novel around absence—around the person who isn’t there?
​Rebecca Fallon’s debut novel Family Drama is a layered exploration of sibling love, grief, performance, and the cost of holding onto creative dreams.Â
​Family Drama follows Susan Bliss—wife, mother, and beloved soap opera star—whose life unfolds across two coasts and two selves. After her death, her twins are left to reconstruct the mother they never fully knew. Told in intertwined timelines, the novel moves like a double helix, revealing how public identity and private devotion can exist in tension, and how memory becomes its own form of storytelling.
​Join us for a conversation with Rebecca Fallon about ambition and motherhood, crafting dual timelines, and the making of her debut novel Family Drama.
​We’ll also explore:
​Structuring a novel across dual timelines without losing momentum
​Crafting sibling dynamics with specificity and restraint
​The discipline of sustaining a long-form project across continents and life transitions
​Navigating creative ambition alongside family expectations
​What changes—and what doesn’t—when your first novel enters the world
​About Rebecca Fallon
​Rebecca Fallon is a New England-born Londoner and a graduate of Williams College and the University of Oxford. Family Drama is her debut novel.
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