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…
One of the very best things about being an author is getting to know other authors! It’s so much fun to read books by people you know. Here are some upcoming books that I loved reading, all coming out in the next few months! For all of them, I received 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…
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!
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…