Camille Gossett

I’ve carefully thought about my brand and strategy for years- honestly, since I was a little girl trying to create the person that I wanted to be one day. It means everything to me—it is the one thing that is all my own and that I have total control over. I think I knew from the beginning I was going to lose a lot of so-called “friends” along the way- along with becoming estranged from most of my blood family and making a lot of dumb dudes roll their eyes. I am simply not good at keeping my...

Being a creative is hard. Like, way harder than I ever thought it would be. I have so much respect for people who make money doing this thing. On the bright side, I’ve at least procured some income in the first few months since launching my debut novel. However, the outcome of the entire emergent indie-author experience—of promulgating a seven-hundred-plus-page work containing some of my deepest, most soulful thoughts—has been less than illustrious. It’s been so difficult, in fact, that I...

Trauma lives in the limbic center (system) of the brain — and the limbic center does not know time. This is why traumatized people relive the moment of trauma as though it is happening to them in real time, not as a memory, but as a present reality. Because The Storyteller's Daughter is at its core an extended metaphor on trauma and recovery, it was essential to me that the how of the storytelling mirror the experience of a survivor — not just in content, but in form. The architecture of the...