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Who is Cora Broussard?

Click here to order Midnight in New California Writing a book set fifteen years in the future presented all sorts of opportunities for cool new technology, major societal changes, and a much more interesting question—how could I potentially change over the course of fifteen years? When I started writing the book, I was finishing up…

Why Midnight in New California?

Why did I call my book Midnight in New California? My first answer is that I don’t remember. I thought of the title in November 2016 before I began writing the book, and never seriously reconsidered. The “New California” part is obvious. The book takes place in 2032 in San Francisco, ten years after California…

The Story Behind the Story

Since I was a young teenager, I wanted to write a novel. Over the years, I have produced many files called “novel.doc” and later, “novel.docx,” but none ever amounted to more than a few thousand words. The day after Donald Trump was elected president, I was surprised, upset, and hungover from too many bourbon manhattans.…