{"id":2654,"date":"2019-02-11T11:39:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T16:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=2654"},"modified":"2019-02-11T11:39:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T16:39:49","slug":"megan-collins-publishes-debut-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2019\/02\/11\/megan-collins-publishes-debut-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan Collins publishes debut novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2019\/02\/11\/megan-collins-publishes-debut-novel\/megan-collins-for-web-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2655\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2019\/02\/MEGAN-COLLINS-for-Web-2-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"MEGAN COLLINS for Web (2)\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2019\/02\/MEGAN-COLLINS-for-Web-2-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2019\/02\/MEGAN-COLLINS-for-Web-2-768x1234.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2019\/02\/MEGAN-COLLINS-for-Web-2-638x1024.jpg 638w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2019\/02\/MEGAN-COLLINS-for-Web-2.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a>We are so excited to announce that Megan Collins (Poetry &#8217;08) has published her debut novel,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.megancollins.com\/the-winter-sister\/\"><em>The Winter Sister<\/em><\/a>!\u00a0 The book was released last week, and has already been a hit with reviewers and readers alike.\u00a0 A\u00a0contemporary suspense novel inspired by the Greek myth of Persephone, it begins sixteen years ago, when Sylvie&#8217;s sister Persephone didn&#8217;t come home. Out too late with the boyfriend she was forbidden to see, Persephone was missing for three days before her body was found&#8211;and years later, her murder remains unsolved. Now, Sylvie returns home to care for her estranged, alcoholic mother undergoing cancer treatment, and in the process, begins to uncover the truth about what really happened to Persephone.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Winter Sister<\/em>\u00a0is a 2019 anticipated read from PopSugar, <em>Marie Claire,<\/em> and Goodreads.\u00a0 Kirkus Reviews called it &#8220;a bewitching thriller, with surprises detonating in nearly every chapter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Megan!\u00a0 We&#8217;re so happy for you.<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2019\/02\/11\/megan-collins-publishes-debut-novel\/final-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2656\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2019\/02\/FINAL-2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"FINAL (2)\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2019\/02\/FINAL-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2019\/02\/FINAL-2-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2019\/02\/FINAL-2-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2019\/02\/FINAL-2.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Megan\u00a0Collins\u00a0holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Boston University. She has taught creative writing at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts and Central Connecticut State University, and she is the managing editor of <em>3Elements Review<\/em>. A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, her work has appeared in many print and online journals, including <em>Off the Coast, Spillway, Tinderbox Poetry Journal<\/em>, and <em>Rattle<\/em>. She lives in Connecticut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are so excited to announce that Megan Collins (Poetry &#8217;08) has published her debut novel,\u00a0The Winter Sister!\u00a0 The book was released last week, and has already been a hit with reviewers and readers alike.\u00a0 A\u00a0contemporary suspense novel inspired by the Greek myth of Persephone, it begins sixteen years ago, when Sylvie&#8217;s sister Persephone didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[556,4165],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2654"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2661,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions\/2661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}