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…
Checkout my interview about Platformed and writing on ManyBooks! What inspired the book? To what extent is it a cautionary tale? How many of my own experiences are reflected in Sara’s experiences? Click through to find out!
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…
I love fairytales. I always have. I think every little girl grows up on Disney movies and Hans Christian Andersen books (fun fact, my great grandparents came from the town where he lived!). We dreamed of pretty dresses and royalty. But even as a child, I saw how much darker 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…
Platformed comes out on May 18, 2021 and is available for preorder now! I encourage you to support your local independent bookstore by buying from Bookshop.org, but it’s also on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Smashwords. In the mid 2030s, Sara is a young female software engineer at a startup Read more…
I’ve written before about how I strive to hit emotional highs and lows, and I do. But ideas, not feelings, are what keep me writing (and reading). I sit down to write a new story because I have some itching thought that I can’t work out any other way. I Read more…
I start probably half of my conversations by saying, “I heard on a podcast…” Recently, I listened to an episode of No Stupid Questions called Why do we forget so much of what we’ve read? It featured the regular hosts, psychologist Angela Duckworth and economist Stephen Dubner, discussing the extent Read more…