MJ Kuhar

RABT Book Tours Is There a Message in Your Novel That You Want Readers to Grasp?   One of my goals as an author writing fiction is to tell stories that entice readers to think about “big questions.” In Vitro includes a fair amount of detail about the advanced technologies used to treat infertility. I’d like readers to understand the huge costs of this treatment—emotional, physical, and financial. I also hope they begin to think about the ethical questions inherent in these types of advanced...

When I was contemplating retirement, a colleague asked me what I planned to do. "I'm going to write a book," I said casually. "Oh really?" she said. She asked what kind of story I'd write, and immediately I knew it would be set in an IVF Clinic. I had worked in such a clinic for a year before heading off to private practice. During that year, I witnessed a vast spectrum of human emotions--anticipation, hope, anger, joy, grief, and love. I watched couples grow closer through the process, and...