Dreams don’t come true, decisions do.
Write Rich, Raw, Real
Human Stories in Literary Fiction
with confident creative decisions you can trust for a novel that reflects your talent, taste, and the
pulsing heart of your story.
A Note From Tiffany
I’m Tiffany Clarke Harrison, Author and Author Mentor. Experienced literary fiction authors come to me to stop second-guessing their choices and start writing rich, raw, real novels with authority, hunger, and an ache like the ambitious author they are.
You’re already a great writer, so your novel isn’t asking for more generic craft advice or writing workshops that keep you spiraling with decision fatigue until you’re ready to throw the whole draft away.
Great novels have a specificity of language and feeling that lives in the details and slips through the shy crevices where the story reveals itself.
Your novel(s) will do the same when you make specific, confident creative decisions you can trust so your novel reflects your talent, taste, and the bursting heart of the story.
I’m the author mentor to award winning and published authors, New York Times and Harper’s Bazaar journalists, Creative Writing MFAs, and editors. Clients have signed with agents, received 6-figure book deals, and landed number 1 on bestseller lists.
I write emotionally raw and honest literary fiction about women moving through a reclamation. My debut novel is BLUE HOUR, and made Vulture’s Best Books of 2023, was featured by Coco Gauff, Emma Roberts, Dua Lipa, and was a Barack Obama summer reading list selection.
Nearly 10 years ago, after an MS diagnosis, I stopped abandoning myself and made big, uncomfortable decisions to get closer to the author career I dreamed of, and now I guide experienced literary fiction authors through their novels to make big uncomfortable decisions of their own to write novels that rock the hell out of readers.
This is where the next level of your author career begins.
Services
Make A Scene
Scenes in life and literature make you stop and stare for a reason—they bring out the voyeur in you. That part that leans in asking who, what, and why? Make A Scene sharpens your focus to identify what a scene is doing so you can stop writing and revising in circles and start trusting your decisions will have readers feeling like they simply couldn’t look away.
Author Mentorship
Great literary fiction comes from guts, not painfully clinical formulas and plug-and-play templates. You’ll leave your draft (or as much as you have) alone with me to read, then you, me, and your characters will gather and get honest about what’s flailing, what’s flourishing, and how to give the story exactly what it wants. (And the great ones always get what they want.)
The Rewrite
Go deep into your rewrite, line by line, feeling by feeling, and write the draft that lives and breathes with every word. For literary fiction authors on their third+ draft who want their manuscript query or reader ready, with line edits and ghost writing that makes every flick of a finger and bat of an eye feel like it’s our own.
Read My Book
Blue Hour: A Novel
A Barack Obama Summer Reading selection, and one of Vulture’s Best Books of 2023
What is motherhood in the midst of uncertainty, buried trauma, and an unraveling America? What it’s always been—a love song
Our narrator is a gifted photographer, an uncertain wife, an infertile mother, a biracial woman in an unraveling America. As she grapples with a lifetime of ambivalence about motherhood, yet another act of police brutality makes headlines, and this time the victim is Noah, a boy in her photography class. Unmoored by the grief of a recent devastating miscarriage and Noah’s fight for his life, she worries she can no longer chase the hope of having a child, no longer wants to bring a Black body into the world. Yet her husband Asher—contributing white, Jewish genes alongside her Black-Japanese ones for any potential child—is just as desperate to keep trying. Throwing herself into a new documentary on motherhood, and making secret visits to Noah in the hospital, this when she learns she is, impossibly, pregnant. As the future shifts once again, she must decide yet again what she dares hope for the shape of her future to be. Fearless, timely, blazing with voice, Blue Hour is a fragmentary novel with unignorable storytelling power.