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…
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…
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…