What is The Next Novel?

Back in January 2021, I was working on my next novel and I started this newsletter with the idea that I would document the process via weekly emails.

Since then, I’ve written a whole other novel manuscript and written, sold, and published a book-length essay, and I’m still working on the original “next novel.”

If reading about someone else’s writing life — the successes, the failures, and all the messiness in between — sounds interesting to you, then welcome!

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Shayne Terry is the author of Leave: A Postpartum Account (Autofocus Books, 2025). Her work has appeared in CRAFT, Electric Lit, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. Born in northern Illinois, she lives in Brooklyn.