Moonshine Murmurs: Drafting and Redrafting

Watershed Lit

Carol Mitchell and Josh Denslow sit down to talk about the collaborative process of creating Denslow's new book Super Normal, a novel over 15 years in the making. Mitchell, one of many talented editors with Stillhouse Press, worked with Denslow as managing editor of Super Normal through the COVID-19 pandemic. In this episode, they discuss the process of redrafting a novel, and the many possible iterations of a single story. Super Normal was released on November 7 2023 from Stillhouse Press and is available for sale on our website at stillhousepress.org. Carol Mitchell is a consulting editor with Stillhouse Press and a term professor in the English Department at George Mason University. She holds an MFA from George Mason and is the author of several books for children and one novel for adults: What Start Bad a Mornin'. Josh Denslow is also the author of a short story collection Not Everyone is Special. He currently lives in Barcelona, Spain with his three boys, his amazing wife, his mother-in-law, four cats, a dog, hundreds of books, and an electronic drum kit. A transcript of this episode is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F6krwOwAUt_06e01M7ij0XZdWAcUTOTjDNSoMX_e0s0/edit?usp=sharing