{"id":14369,"date":"2025-08-21T12:03:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T16:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/?page_id=14369"},"modified":"2025-08-21T12:03:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T16:03:39","slug":"david-moloney","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/david-moloney\/","title":{"rendered":"David Moloney"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I spent my twenties working in juvenile residential homes, mental hospitals, and a county jail. During that time, I wrote constantly\u2014journals, stories, notes\u2014keeping the muscles loose, even if the writing went nowhere. After my wife became pregnant, I left the jail and returned to school, planning to become a high school English teacher. But college writing workshops wouldn\u2019t let me abandon the dream I couldn\u2019t deny: being a writer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I write without a plan or outline. I begin by reading what I wrote the day before and follow my curiosity, letting my characters guide me. I watch them stumble, fail, and sometimes find what they seek. On the page, I preserve the parts of myself that resist schedules and checklists, the parts that chase wonder and surprise in ordinary life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This approach shaped Barker House<\/em> and carries into my forthcoming novel, Lion in Love<\/em>, set in Lowell, Massachusetts, a former mill town on the Merrimack River. In that city, I return to the streets, the corners, the lives of people pushed to the margins, letting their stories unfold in ways only fiction allows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Moloney is the author of Barker House<\/em> (Bloomsbury, 2020) and the forthcoming novel Lion in Love<\/em> (Regal House, Spring 2027). His work has appeared in AGNI<\/em>, Guernica<\/em>, The Yale Review<\/em>, Joyland<\/em>, The Common<\/em>, Lit Hub<\/em>, Electric Lit<\/em>, and elsewhere. He is the coordinator of Southern New Hampshire University\u2019s undergraduate creative writing program and teaches at The Mountainview MFA, where he also attended. He is a native of Lowell, MA, the city in which Lion in Love<\/em> is set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regal House Publishing is proud to bring you David Moloney’s Lion in Love<\/em> in the spring of 2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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