Steven’s debut novel, called “Lily and the Octopus”, was released in the year 2016, and has been published in nineteen languages.
It took him more than a year to write the novel’s first draft and a number of drafts followed that to get the story and characters the way he wanted it.įor “The Guncle”, he was inspired from spending one week with his two nephews and documented their visit on his Instagram, and his editor called him out of the blue and asked if he thought there was anything to write about.
He even read other books that she edited at the time the novel takes place to try and recreate her desk, and learn all about the subjects which interested her. This meant reading biographies from her time in the publishing world, hearing from her coworkers and the writers that worked with her. Writing “The Editor” was a much more research intensive novel than his first, as Steven took the responsibility of writing Jackie rather seriously. His only limits were those imposed on him by his own imagination. Not once was he considering how expensive something would be to build, or how hard it would be to cast, or just impossible to film. When he chose to write it as a book, he removed his screenwriter’s cap and just jumped into the medium entirely, and it was fully freeing. He shared his story with his boyfriend, who encouraged him to continue writing. He never expected it would go anywhere, but just doing what other writers often do by putting his feelings down on the paper to get them out of his head and heart. Six months after his dog died of cancer, he wrote what later became the first chapter of “Lily and the Octopus” as a short story to help process his grief. He is a graduate of Emerson College and is originally from Portland, Maine.
Author Steven Rowley has worked as a newspaper columnist, a freelance writer, and screenwriter.
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