Leah Mueller On Books And Writing

For my latest author interview, I turned to Leah Mueller.

Our exchange, which has been edited, is below.

“The Destruction of Angels” was published in October of last year. Would you tell me a little bit about it?

“The Destruction of Angels” contains an eclectic hodgepodge of short stories. Some of them are longer, like the title story, and others are very short. I love microfiction, especially drabbles (100-word tales).

But I also like to spread out and use many pages to spin a yarn. Most of the stories are memoir (I’ve lived a strange life), but there are a couple of speculative fiction tales, such as “The Hermit Goes Speed Dating.”

How long did it take to write? Do you have a writing routine?

I created the tales at different times, so it’s impossible to gauge how long it took me to write the entire book. Compiling the already written stories was the easy part. I wrote most of them during the past three years, with the exception of “Yippie Vs Yuppie,” which dates back to 2018. Now, THAT story took a long time to put together. It centers around a brief appearance I made on “The Phil Donahue Show” back in 1984, when Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin were doing a debate tour.