Merritt Tierce, the Dallas-area author of Love Me Back ... It's very difficult to make a living at it. My book has sold over 12,000 copies, but that's nowhere close to earning back my advance ...

Abortion. Being a woman. Being an outsider in some ways, I guess.” Tierce left Kohan a copy of her book before returning to Denton for two weeks. She then started on what would be her final ...

We spoke to Tierce about restaurants, motherhood, and masochism in Love Me Back. Austin Chronicle: I worked in restaurants for years. I didn't know when I picked up your book that I was going to ...

This spirited, compelling and often accomplished novel – the debut work of the Texas-born writer Merritt Tierce – is concerned ... When we encounter Marie in the book's prologue, she is ...