LA TIMES: What novelist Cai Emmons taught us about how to die
“In a series of blog posts, she candidly discussed the changes in her physical self while also celebrating moments of joy. She wrote of her willingness to hold nothing back, to mend past rifts, to focus on moments of beauty and to note the sublimity of a life well lived. As she wrote in her last post on Dec. 28, ‘I wanted to devour the world, do it all, even with the end in sight.'”
When your friend is dying, it’s OK to steal her scarves
Cai’s dear friend Miriam Gershow’s heartbreakingly beautiful essay about Cai on Salon.com
“Things that will outlive her: the spinach in my freezer. The half bag of fertilizer in my shed. My unfinished book draft.”
Oregonlive.com: Eugene-based author Cai Emmons, who wrote about living with a fatal ALS diagnosis, dies at 71
Eugene author Cai Emmons, who died on Jan. 2, was a novelist and playwright who wrote with eloquence and honesty about her life after she was diagnosed with ALS.
Cai’s Farewell Newsletter – January 2, 2023
Read my November 2022 Newsletter
You Can Find Cai Emmons’ Favorite Books Under Her Bed
“What I like about being in the bedroom to read is that it’s a place that defies interruption—no one dares to walk in without knocking. It has become like an extension of my mind, the bed covered with things I’m reading and writing.”
WriterCon Podcast: Finding the Courage to Write with Cai Emmons
Bestselling authors William Bernhardt and Rene Gutteridge interview Cai Emmons as she discusses the importance of a regular writing habit; why writing is an act of courage; her writing process; why she tackles important topics; and what she sees in her future.
Imagine More Deeply: A Conversation with Cai Emmons
“Fortunately for all of us fans and readers, Cai’s voice is as strong as ever on the page, and with two novels coming out almost simultaneously this fall, she had a lot to tell me in our interview about living and writing through catastrophe.” -Aimee Liu
LIVID Trailer
TODAY.com: It’s OK to laugh: How I’m finding humor in my fatal diagnosis
In a personal essay, Cai Emmons writes about American culture’s discomfort with death – and the comedy she finds in having a rare, fatal disease.
LA TIMES: ‘A roaring from my body’: Novelist Cai Emmons on writing while running out of time
“A long line of Western philosophers wanted a mind untethered to the messy reality of the human body. The supposed mind-body split has played a part in many troubling ideologies, from misogynist notions of womanhood to eugenics. But it has also fueled Emmons’ work, much of it infused with surreal or magical realist elements, long before it took up residence in her body.”
A Mighty Blaze: Lit Fic Caroline Leavitt talks with Cai Emmons about her two magnificent novels. Sept. 28, 2022
Unleashed Trailer by Sandra Luckow
Hasty Book List: Book Feature – Unleashed by Cai Emmons
When speaking about UNLEASHED, Cai said it “could only be read as a metaphorical chronicle of my developing illness, an autobiography of the last year, despite the fact that there is not the least bit of discernible autobiography within its pages.
KBOO: Cai Emmons, author of two new novels: Unleashed and Livid
“In the words of novelist Dan Chaon: “Unleashed is deeply insightful about our current moment, the way we struggle to balance the quotidian conflicts of love and family with the apocalyptic thunderclouds ever-growing over our heads. Cai Emmons has written a rich and moving book about the things that make life matter, even during the darkest times.”
Eugene Weekly: A Writer’s Intuition
Author Cai Emmons prefers to do all her writing in bed and refers to her work area as ‘The Cockpit’. Photo by Todd Cooper
”Only after her diagnosis did she find that Unleashed is ‘my body’s chronicle of a developing disease, a metaphorical autobiography of sorts.’”
Essay in Publishers Weekly: Slowing Down and Savoring the Writing Process
“After a day of despairing, I began to feel more chipper. I realized this is the kind of work I have always loved best: shaping a manuscript, adding and subtracting, playing with sentences. This was a time to revel in the writing process rather than wishing it to be done. I needed to apply to my manuscript the same approach I’ve tried to bring to my limited life span: slowing down and savoring.”
Authorlink Interview: Muted Author Cai Emmons, on Novel, Unleashed
“By the end of UNLEASHED, each of the main characters has experienced a profound—and utterly unexpected—transformation of both body and mind, just as the author has done.”
Learn more about Cai Emmons’ documentary from filmmaker Sandra Luckow and how you can support HERE
The Washington Post: A novelist’s labored speech signaled an unimaginable diagnosis
“Both laugh at the memory of their shellshocked drive home after receiving the diagnosis.
“They stopped at a high-end mall along the route and tried to distract themselves by buying a candle and a sweater. As the clerk was wrapping the items, she innocently inquired, ‘So how’s your day going?’”
View my August 2022 Newsletter HERE.
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UNLEASHED has been selected by Publisher’s Lunch as a #BuzzBooks2022 selection
SINKING ISLANDS has been awarded the May Sarton Award (finalist) and the Montaigne Award (finalist).
Writers Digest Interview – A Conversation With Cai Emmons About Her Novel, SINKING ISLANDS
Authors Aimee Liu and Cai Emmons sit down for an intimate and wide-ranging conversation, from writing her new novel, Sinking Islands, to finding inspiration during the pandemic and life in the throes of an incurable disease.
Rumpus Book Club Interview
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Cai Emmons about her new novel, Sinking Islands (Red Hen Press, September 2021), how writing sequel is and isn’t different from writing a standalone novel, the research involved in writing about climate change, and the importance of teaching as a way of changing perspectives.
https://therumpus.net/2021/08/the-rumpus-book-club-chat-with-cai-emmons/
#BuzzBooks2022
Tattered Cover is pleased to virtually welcome Cai Emmons to discuss her book Sinking Islands. She will be joined by special guests Aimee Liu, Ellen Meeropol, Sands Hall, Elizabeth Harris, Debra Gwartney, and Miriam Gershow.
Shelf Awareness – Authors Rally to Promote Sinking Islands by Cai Emmons
The author of three previous novels, a story collection, short fiction, plays and screenplays, Cai has received multiple literary awards and fellowships. She knows what it takes to promote a novel. How could she do this with no speaking voice?
Some writers are so generous that people–friends, writers, former students, readers–gather around them naturally. Cai is one of those people. So, in response to her e-mail, “Let your friends be your voice,” her book launch hosted by Denver’s Tattered Cover Bookstore included readings by Cai’s special guests Aimee Liu, Ellen Meeropol, Sands Hall, Elizabeth Harris, Debra Gwartney and Miriam Gershow.
Eugene Weekly – A Eugene writer makes life beautiful in the face of fatal illness
“Her heartbreaking diagnosis has brought a new gumption for life and all it continues to offer. Emmons and Calandrino, both writers, have made practical and emotional changes to their routines in order to enjoy every second they have left together”
Dragonfly Interview
Caroline Leavitt Interview
“I met and befriended Cai the way I do almost every new friend: a book comes in the mail and I love it so much, I have to know the author! In Cai’s case that was Weather Woman, followed by Sinking Islands.”
Live with Robin
Authors at home
This week’s spotlight is on Cai Emmons and her new novel, Sinking Islands. We chatted with Cai about her love of science, when she felt like she’d become a “real” author, and what she’s working on now.
LitHub Essay
Writing a Novel Through Illness: On the Inseparability of Body and Mind. Cai Emmons on Her ALS Diagnosis and Writing as a Reflection of Health
Readers Entertainment Magazine
Behind the Words with Author Cai Emmons
Deborah Kalb – Book Q&A With Cai Emmons
“Sinking Islands spins a potent story about what happens when the unbelievable becomes reality, when the earth goes mad and takes us all along for the ride.” –Diana Abu-Jaber
“I think perhaps the earth has already gone mad and is taking us with it. I certainly feel that way after enduring days of temperatures close to 110 degrees here in the Pacific Northwest.”
Book Club Babble – A Novelist’s Cyber-Travel – Guest Post by Cai Emmons
“From the get-go I knew I wanted those characters to be from the most climate-stressed places in the world. So I began following up on climate news stories, and began to cyber-travel the world. Some of what I discovered was predictably depressing in terms of the climate erosion that has already happened, but other things I learned were simply surprising or amazing, reminding me of the enormity and beauty of the Earth.”
Eugene Scene – Cai Emmons’ New Novel about a Superhero Who Can Control the Weather
I always think there is an interplay between the way people write their books and the way they live their lives. You are correct that I had no idea about my ALS diagnosis when I was writing either Weather Woman or Sinking Islands… One of the interesting things about ALS is that every case is different, and I quickly realized it would not be appropriate to grasp on to anyone’s else’s experience as likely to be like my own. And this, oddly enough, is exactly what these characters in Sinking Islands experience. All the needs of their native homes are different and they need to listen closely and figure out what the Earth wants from them.
KBOO Community Radio (Portland, OR)
Cai Emmons speaks with KBOO host Ken Jones about her new novel, Sinking Islands.
OMNIUM GATHERUM QUARTERLY – Finding a (New) Voice
“What was I trying to prove? For whom? I no longer have the time nor interest in proving myself as anything other than me. My aim has become much more direct: I want to address, from my particular perch, the commonality among us, to provide readers with an accessible window into another human psyche and soul.”
The Los Angeles Times – A Writer (Literally) Loses Her Voice
“I have always enjoyed the theatrical aspect of reading my fiction aloud. Feeling the rhythms of my sentences coming alive, riding the cadences, inserting pregnant pauses… But this night my normally nimble mouth and tongue aren’t wrapping themselves cleanly around certain words. The music of the prose is absent.”
Authors in Conversation: Cai Emmons and Lisa Genova
Literary Hub – The Best Books of 2020 You Might Have Missed
OPB “Think Out Loud” Radio Interview with Cai Emmons about VANISHING
KBOO Radio Interview – Vanishing
NWBookLovers – To Sleep, Perchance to Write
“The siren call of sleep is, to me, irresistible. Its privacy is an introvert’s paradise—no one intrudes. The hush of the bedroom. The refuge of the bed, a bower with its cradling mattress and pillows. The weight of the covers. The delicious sensation of being ferried away on a tide of forgetfulness, the day’s troubles dissolving. Waking briefly in the wee hours to think: It’s still dark—more time to sleep!”
The Oregonian Review – Identity is the thread running through Oregon author Cai Emmons’ new short story collection, ‘Vanishing’
“The pull of these stories lies in their relatable situations: the friendship kept alive more out of a sense of duty than joy; the power of seeding self-doubt; the temptation of a new persona. They illustrate the choice we all must make: Write our own stories, or risk vanishing into someone else’s.”
Eugene Weekly – Cai Emmons, Finding Her Medium
Must Read Fiction – Interview with Cai Emmons about VANISHING
Ms. Magazine – Authors Aimee Liu and Cai Emmons Talk Motherhood, Shame and Releasing Books Mid-Pandemic
Ms. Q&A: Authors Aimee Liu and Cai Emmons Talk Motherhood, Shame and Releasing Books Mid-Pandemic
LitHub – Nine Unabashed Books About Bodies
Pain, Pleasure, Bad Behavior… Cai Emmons Recommends Her Favorites
Ms. Magazine – A Word Person Thinks About Bodies
“It was recently brought to my attention that my characters are obsessed with bodies—their own and everyone else’s.”
City University of New York – Center for the Humanities
“We have a tendency to think of life as moving forward along a straight linear path, plateauing sometime in mid-life, but in actual fact our lives often take radical turns, veering in new directions, possibly because we’re responding to something that has unexpectedly presented itself, or because we’re looking for something more satisfying or more authentic. Sometimes, when people appear to be stuck, they are not actually in stasis, but at one of these pivotal moments of change where a great deal is happening, at least internally.”
Rumpus Q&A
“I felt my way along during the writing, without seeing the end in advance. New questions kept cropping up about what it would be like to have such a power, how secret or open you would be, how isolating it might be, how hard it would be to talk to others, etc. Those questions just kept leading me forward, and I really loved being in that process of discovery right alongside Bronwyn.”
KLCC
“In this eco-feminist fable, Emmons explores themes that resonate for us in today’s world: global warming, gender power struggles, the role of the media, the importance of community.”
Electric Literature—Superpower article
“The disconnect between the astonishing nature of female power and our reluctance to assert ourselves in the world makes stories about women with superpowers particularly compelling. They provide us with a template for thinking about female power in general.”
The Write Question—Montana Public Radio and here
“I think one of the things people don’t realize is that intuition plays a role in science. Almost all scientists approach what they’re doing from some point of having a hunch about something. The hunch, then, gives way to an educated hypothesis and then the hypothesis leads to data gathering and experiment and on and on.”
Caroline Leavitt Blog
“To say I loved Weather Woman is an understatement. Full of amazing science, and even more amazing characters, it’s the kind of book you want to press into the hands of everyone you meet because you need them to read it so you all can obsess and talk about it.”
Artists and Climate Change
“In some ways, Weather Woman is about personal responsibility. Bronwyn has the supernatural power to affect the weather, but looked at a different way, so do we all.”
Book Club Babble
Weather Woman balances emotion with humor and a unique blend of accurate science and modern magic. Bronwyn’s story poses questions about women and power, logic and intuition, and what our damaged planet needs from all of us right now.
LitHub – Excerpt from Cai Emmons’ novel, Weather Woman
Amy Brady Newsletter – Interview with Novelist Cai Emmons
Amy: Your novel has a fantastical element in that the protagonist, Bronwyn Artair, can directly affect the weather. But the novel is also rooted in reality with its references to climate-related phenomena like wild fires, extreme weather patterns, and the effects of Siberian methane field emissions on the atmosphere. What inspired such a rich and interesting story?
Scott Jones “Give and Take” Podcast
My guest is Cai Emmons. Her newest book, Weather Woman, is the story of meteorologist Bronwyn Artair who discovers she has the power to change the weather.
Joe Follansbee – 5 Questions interview with author Cai Emmons
“My Five Questions series is back, and I’m excited to present the answers of Cai Emmons, author of a fascinating new novel, Weather Woman. Climate change plays a big role in this story of a young broadcast meteorologist who discovers a unique talent: she can not only predict the weather, she can make it.”
Jane Friedman – Interview with Cai Emmons about her Pre-Publication Marketing Van Tour
To spread the word about Weather Woman being released from Red Hen Press in 2028, Cai drove “the Weather Woman van” to independent bookstores in the Western United States, distributing advance reader copies and chatting with booksellers.
“Given the unusual nature of her pre-publication marketing, I asked her why she’s pursued this strategy and what the payoff has been thus far.” –Jane Friedman
Foreward Reviews – Cai Emmons discusses her latest book, Weather Woman
“A riveting tug-of-war between science and intuition, doubt and belief, impending devastation and the hope of survival.” —Eileen Pollack
Eco Fiction – Interview with Cai Emmons, Weather Woman
“Grounded in both awe and science, aching with wonder, and written with the dazzling surprise of a double rainbow… Emmons is a natural literary force to be reckoned with.” —Caroline Leavitt
Book Riot – Review of Weather Woman
Large Hearted Boy – Cai Emmons’ (Music) Playlist for Her Novel “Weather Woman”
Iowa Public Radio: Writers’ Voices – Cai Emmons and her new novel, WEATHER WOMAN
Write the Book – Conversations on Craft with Cai Emmons
Aspen Public Radio – interview with Cai Emmons
KBOO Public Radio – Cai Emmons new novel, WEATHER WOMAN
Foreword Reviews – WEATHER WOMAN
Portland Monthly – “Slouching Towards Portland”
The Writer’s [Inner] Journey – The 5-Question Interview with Author Cai Emmons
Author Cai Emmons talks of translating curiosity about human behavior onto the page, the best time to write, and the magic of obsession in the early stages of creation.
UNLEASHED has been selected by Publisher’s Lunch as a #BuzzBooks2022 selection
SINKING ISLANDS has been awarded the May Sarton Award (finalist) and the Montaigne Award (finalist).
Writers Digest Interview – A Conversation With Cai Emmons About Her Novel, SINKING ISLANDS
Authors Aimee Liu and Cai Emmons sit down for an intimate and wide-ranging conversation, from writing her new novel, Sinking Islands, to finding inspiration during the pandemic and life in the throes of an incurable disease.
Rumpus Book Club Interview
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Cai Emmons about her new novel, Sinking Islands (Red Hen Press, September 2021), how writing sequel is and isn’t different from writing a standalone novel, the research involved in writing about climate change, and the importance of teaching as a way of changing perspectives.
https://therumpus.net/2021/08/the-rumpus-book-club-chat-with-cai-emmons/
#BuzzBooks2022
Tattered Cover is pleased to virtually welcome Cai Emmons to discuss her book Sinking Islands. She will be joined by special guests Aimee Liu, Ellen Meeropol, Sands Hall, Elizabeth Harris, Debra Gwartney, and Miriam Gershow.
Shelf Awareness – Authors Rally to Promote Sinking Islands by Cai Emmons
The author of three previous novels, a story collection, short fiction, plays and screenplays, Cai has received multiple literary awards and fellowships. She knows what it takes to promote a novel. How could she do this with no speaking voice?
Some writers are so generous that people–friends, writers, former students, readers–gather around them naturally. Cai is one of those people. So, in response to her e-mail, “Let your friends be your voice,” her book launch hosted by Denver’s Tattered Cover Bookstore included readings by Cai’s special guests Aimee Liu, Ellen Meeropol, Sands Hall, Elizabeth Harris, Debra Gwartney and Miriam Gershow.
Eugene Weekly – A Eugene writer makes life beautiful in the face of fatal illness
“Her heartbreaking diagnosis has brought a new gumption for life and all it continues to offer. Emmons and Calandrino, both writers, have made practical and emotional changes to their routines in order to enjoy every second they have left together”
Dragonfly Interview
Caroline Leavitt Interview
“I met and befriended Cai the way I do almost every new friend: a book comes in the mail and I love it so much, I have to know the author! In Cai’s case that was Weather Woman, followed by Sinking Islands.”
Live with Robin
Authors at home
This week’s spotlight is on Cai Emmons and her new novel, Sinking Islands. We chatted with Cai about her love of science, when she felt like she’d become a “real” author, and what she’s working on now.
LitHub Essay
Writing a Novel Through Illness: On the Inseparability of Body and Mind. Cai Emmons on Her ALS Diagnosis and Writing as a Reflection of Health
Readers Entertainment Magazine
Behind the Words with Author Cai Emmons
Deborah Kalb – Book Q&A With Cai Emmons
“Sinking Islands spins a potent story about what happens when the unbelievable becomes reality, when the earth goes mad and takes us all along for the ride.” –Diana Abu-Jaber
“I think perhaps the earth has already gone mad and is taking us with it. I certainly feel that way after enduring days of temperatures close to 110 degrees here in the Pacific Northwest.”
Book Club Babble – A Novelist’s Cyber-Travel – Guest Post by Cai Emmons
“From the get-go I knew I wanted those characters to be from the most climate-stressed places in the world. So I began following up on climate news stories, and began to cyber-travel the world. Some of what I discovered was predictably depressing in terms of the climate erosion that has already happened, but other things I learned were simply surprising or amazing, reminding me of the enormity and beauty of the Earth.”
Eugene Scene – Cai Emmons’ New Novel about a Superhero Who Can Control the Weather
I always think there is an interplay between the way people write their books and the way they live their lives. You are correct that I had no idea about my ALS diagnosis when I was writing either Weather Woman or Sinking Islands… One of the interesting things about ALS is that every case is different, and I quickly realized it would not be appropriate to grasp on to anyone’s else’s experience as likely to be like my own. And this, oddly enough, is exactly what these characters in Sinking Islands experience. All the needs of their native homes are different and they need to listen closely and figure out what the Earth wants from them.
KBOO Community Radio (Portland, OR)
Cai Emmons speaks with KBOO host Ken Jones about her new novel, Sinking Islands.
OMNIUM GATHERUM QUARTERLY – Finding a (New) Voice
“What was I trying to prove? For whom? I no longer have the time nor interest in proving myself as anything other than me. My aim has become much more direct: I want to address, from my particular perch, the commonality among us, to provide readers with an accessible window into another human psyche and soul.”
The Los Angeles Times – A Writer (Literally) Loses Her Voice
“I have always enjoyed the theatrical aspect of reading my fiction aloud. Feeling the rhythms of my sentences coming alive, riding the cadences, inserting pregnant pauses… But this night my normally nimble mouth and tongue aren’t wrapping themselves cleanly around certain words. The music of the prose is absent.”
Authors in Conversation: Cai Emmons and Lisa Genova
Literary Hub – The Best Books of 2020 You Might Have Missed
OPB “Think Out Loud” Radio Interview with Cai Emmons about VANISHING
KBOO Radio Interview – Vanishing
NWBookLovers – To Sleep, Perchance to Write
“The siren call of sleep is, to me, irresistible. Its privacy is an introvert’s paradise—no one intrudes. The hush of the bedroom. The refuge of the bed, a bower with its cradling mattress and pillows. The weight of the covers. The delicious sensation of being ferried away on a tide of forgetfulness, the day’s troubles dissolving. Waking briefly in the wee hours to think: It’s still dark—more time to sleep!”
The Oregonian Review – Identity is the thread running through Oregon author Cai Emmons’ new short story collection, ‘Vanishing’
“The pull of these stories lies in their relatable situations: the friendship kept alive more out of a sense of duty than joy; the power of seeding self-doubt; the temptation of a new persona. They illustrate the choice we all must make: Write our own stories, or risk vanishing into someone else’s.”
Eugene Weekly – Cai Emmons, Finding Her Medium
Must Read Fiction – Interview with Cai Emmons about VANISHING
Ms. Magazine – Authors Aimee Liu and Cai Emmons Talk Motherhood, Shame and Releasing Books Mid-Pandemic
Ms. Q&A: Authors Aimee Liu and Cai Emmons Talk Motherhood, Shame and Releasing Books Mid-Pandemic
LitHub – Nine Unabashed Books About Bodies
Pain, Pleasure, Bad Behavior… Cai Emmons Recommends Her Favorites
Ms. Magazine – A Word Person Thinks About Bodies
“It was recently brought to my attention that my characters are obsessed with bodies—their own and everyone else’s.”
City University of New York – Center for the Humanities
“We have a tendency to think of life as moving forward along a straight linear path, plateauing sometime in mid-life, but in actual fact our lives often take radical turns, veering in new directions, possibly because we’re responding to something that has unexpectedly presented itself, or because we’re looking for something more satisfying or more authentic. Sometimes, when people appear to be stuck, they are not actually in stasis, but at one of these pivotal moments of change where a great deal is happening, at least internally.”
Rumpus Q&A
“I felt my way along during the writing, without seeing the end in advance. New questions kept cropping up about what it would be like to have such a power, how secret or open you would be, how isolating it might be, how hard it would be to talk to others, etc. Those questions just kept leading me forward, and I really loved being in that process of discovery right alongside Bronwyn.”
KLCC
“In this eco-feminist fable, Emmons explores themes that resonate for us in today’s world: global warming, gender power struggles, the role of the media, the importance of community.”
Electric Literature—Superpower article
“The disconnect between the astonishing nature of female power and our reluctance to assert ourselves in the world makes stories about women with superpowers particularly compelling. They provide us with a template for thinking about female power in general.”
The Write Question—Montana Public Radio and here
“I think one of the things people don’t realize is that intuition plays a role in science. Almost all scientists approach what they’re doing from some point of having a hunch about something. The hunch, then, gives way to an educated hypothesis and then the hypothesis leads to data gathering and experiment and on and on.”
Caroline Leavitt Blog
“To say I loved Weather Woman is an understatement. Full of amazing science, and even more amazing characters, it’s the kind of book you want to press into the hands of everyone you meet because you need them to read it so you all can obsess and talk about it.”
Artists and Climate Change
“In some ways, Weather Woman is about personal responsibility. Bronwyn has the supernatural power to affect the weather, but looked at a different way, so do we all.”
Book Club Babble
Weather Woman balances emotion with humor and a unique blend of accurate science and modern magic. Bronwyn’s story poses questions about women and power, logic and intuition, and what our damaged planet needs from all of us right now.
LitHub – Excerpt from Cai Emmons’ novel, Weather Woman
Amy Brady Newsletter – Interview with Novelist Cai Emmons
Amy: Your novel has a fantastical element in that the protagonist, Bronwyn Artair, can directly affect the weather. But the novel is also rooted in reality with its references to climate-related phenomena like wild fires, extreme weather patterns, and the effects of Siberian methane field emissions on the atmosphere. What inspired such a rich and interesting story?
Scott Jones “Give and Take” Podcast
My guest is Cai Emmons. Her newest book, Weather Woman, is the story of meteorologist Bronwyn Artair who discovers she has the power to change the weather.
Joe Follansbee – 5 Questions interview with author Cai Emmons
“My Five Questions series is back, and I’m excited to present the answers of Cai Emmons, author of a fascinating new novel, Weather Woman. Climate change plays a big role in this story of a young broadcast meteorologist who discovers a unique talent: she can not only predict the weather, she can make it.”
Jane Friedman – Interview with Cai Emmons about her Pre-Publication Marketing Van Tour
To spread the word about Weather Woman being released from Red Hen Press in 2028, Cai drove “the Weather Woman van” to independent bookstores in the Western United States, distributing advance reader copies and chatting with booksellers.
“Given the unusual nature of her pre-publication marketing, I asked her why she’s pursued this strategy and what the payoff has been thus far.” –Jane Friedman
Foreward Reviews – Cai Emmons discusses her latest book, Weather Woman
“A riveting tug-of-war between science and intuition, doubt and belief, impending devastation and the hope of survival.” —Eileen Pollack
Eco Fiction – Interview with Cai Emmons, Weather Woman
“Grounded in both awe and science, aching with wonder, and written with the dazzling surprise of a double rainbow… Emmons is a natural literary force to be reckoned with.” —Caroline Leavitt
Book Riot – Review of Weather Woman
Large Hearted Boy – Cai Emmons’ (Music) Playlist for Her Novel “Weather Woman”
Iowa Public Radio: Writers’ Voices – Cai Emmons and her new novel, WEATHER WOMAN
Write the Book – Conversations on Craft with Cai Emmons
Aspen Public Radio – interview with Cai Emmons
KBOO Public Radio – Cai Emmons new novel, WEATHER WOMAN
Foreword Reviews – WEATHER WOMAN
Portland Monthly – “Slouching Towards Portland”
The Writer’s [Inner] Journey – The 5-Question Interview with Author Cai Emmons
Author Cai Emmons talks of translating curiosity about human behavior onto the page, the best time to write, and the magic of obsession in the early stages of creation.