And rooting for people who do bad things. CINDERELLA’S CRIMES is coming in just a few weeks and the ARC is in reviewers’ hands right now — which does make me a little nervous! The protagonist is evil. She does bad things. Sure, she figures the people she hurts deserve Read more…
As any author can probably tell you, coming up with titles for your novel is extremely difficult. In my experience, the title either comes to me with minimal effort or cause or never comes to me at all. Pretty Deadly – my book reimagining Cinderella as a psychopath – is Read more…
A new and improved version of PRETTY DEADLY, with a gorgeous new cover, some slight changes to the text, and an exciting sequel coming hot on its heels, CINDERELLA’S CRIMES follows Cinna on her heist-filled path to the throne. Cinna would kill for the throne. For years, Cinna has been Read more…
Pretty Deadly is a book of the pandemic: when it launched in October 2021, all my friendships were virtual and the launch was held on Zoom. I wanted to get my dark and violent fairytale out into the world, but I had no idea how. When I received a publication Read more…
Another arbitrary chunk of time to which we’ve collectively decided to assign meaning has passed! Therefore I’m looking back on the books I’ve read since the last time we bought new calendars and picking some favorites. If you read these three books, I’m sure you’ll notice a pattern—climate change loomed Read more…
This year, my reading goal was 80 books. I decided I would read fewer than 2021 so I would focus more on longer books, rather than optimizing for sheer quantity. I went past my goal by just a little. By 142, to be exact. I know some people read more Read more…
Sorry for the Taylor Swift reference in the title. If you know me in person, you know this is inevitable. A lot of authors hate editing. It involves tearing out chunks of your beloved story, reviewing your own work with a critical eye and figuring out everything you did wrong, Read more…
The news lately has felt pretty apocalyptic. I won’t get into the international or even national headlines, because there’s far too much there. Instead, I’m going to stick close to my own home, and close to Platformed’s setting. When I wrote Platformed, I imagined a future embattled by climate change, Read more…
There’s something beautiful about a well-loved keyboard. You know the kind: certain keys’ labels have worn off but the user knows exactly which ones must be pressed harder to work properly now, after so many years. Alas, most of the signs of our work, as authors or software engineers, are Read more…
There are as many publication stories as there are books. For many years, I thought only one kind of publication counted as success. I imagined I’d someday emerge from the querying trenches with an agent, big publishers would bicker over my amazing story, and then it would become a bestseller. Read more…