Uncovering Hidden Truths: Jacque Gorelick’s Journey Through Love, Loss, and Redemption in Map of a Heart
JG: I’m glad it worked well and the pacing, too. That was something I didn’t know tons about. I didn’t have that background, but from a reader perspective, I just knew what would pull me in. I didn’t know how I would do it as I wrote, but the first chapter came out as an epistolary. I think because at the time it was still really hard for me to write because it was still traumatizing. How do I get the reader to care at all about this man who we haven’t met? I knew I wanted to start with an inciting incident. Obviously having that happen in anyone’s life as a new mother is horrifying but I wanted to show how much it meant to me to have the stability in this family and then to feel like it was going to all go away again.
