Author: harlo

And a 24-Hour Sprint Hello, hello, hello, I’ve spent the last few weeks submerged in two different worlds that are beginning to bleed into one another in ways I didn’t entirely expect. If you’ve been following along, you know I have a soft spot for dusty basements and things that shouldn’t be there. These…

(Or: What I’ve Been Writing, What I’ve Been Feeling, and a Question for You) The Static is out. It came out March 26th, which means by the time you’re reading this, it has officially existed in the world for a little while, and I am still in the phase where I refresh my dashboard…

The Static is out. I made a thing. Please don’t tell my cat. So. It’s done. The Static — Book 2 of the Inconveniently Haunted series — is officially a real object that exists in the world and can be purchased by people who are not related to me. This is either a triumph…

I explain where I went and why The Static is almost in your hands Hi, hello, I’m back. Did you miss me? Don’t answer that. I’ve been gone approximately one week and I have emerged from the other side looking like someone who has been staring at a manuscript in a state of barely-controlled…

The Haunting Before I Do vs. The Static There’s a thing that happens with sequels that nobody warns you about. You write your first book and somewhere in the middle of it — not at the beginning, not at the end, but in the messy middle where you stop performing and start just writing…

A Short Story This one came from a question I couldn’t stop turning over: what happens to the stories that never got told? Not lost in a fire or a flood — just quietly buried. Wrong time, wrong gender, wrong connections. The usual story. I started pulling on that thread and ended up with…

I don’t do downtime… Here is a thing that happened recently: my editor and I are in the middle of editing The Static, which means I am in that particular phase of the writing life where the manuscript exists but is not yet done and I am not allowed to touch it except in…

What Do You Want to Read? I’ve been sitting on fragments lately. Little scenes that won’t leave me alone, that feel too alive to stay locked in my drafts folder but aren’t quite stories yet—not full arcs, not complete narratives, just these moments that grabbed me and wouldn’t let go until I wrote them…

A woman, a bar, and a significant failure of situational awareness Hi. I’ve missed this. I’ve been deep in The Static for weeks, which is going well in the way serious work goes well — meaning it’s consuming and I love it and it has been eating my entire brain. Which means it was…

I’m Back. Please Clap. Here’s what I’ve been up to, in the order I remembered it while staring at a blank document for forty-five minutes. Let me set the scene: it is Tuesday. My cat, Jolene, has once again claimed the recliner with the territorial confidence of a small, indifferent god. I am on…

The Poison and the Attack Part 1: The Poison and the Attack In the current story, Falcon is a careful, protective Guardian who values consent above all else. This post takes us back to 2017, showing the trauma that cemented her principles: a letter from her maker, Arabella, that compromised her control, leading her…

A New Philosophy Falcon won Charleston, but the territory is fraught with dangers far greater than Edmund Ashford. This post explores the immediate aftermath of her victory, the founding of her progressive philosophy for the city, and the chilling warning she receives from the ancient vampire Court and her estranged maker, Arabella. Edmund had…

The Wager In the present, Falcon faces a threat from her maker, Arabella. To understand how Falcon became powerful enough to challenge Arabella, we must return to 1852, when she challenged the ruling vampire of Charleston, Edmund Ashford, in a high-stakes card game that determined the city’s fate. Charleston, 1852. The card game had…