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This book made me consider a pen name for my pen name. I already have a pen name. This book made me consider a pen name for my pen name. We’ll get to that. In my last post I mentioned, somewhat casually, that I had a manuscript I was thinking about publishing under a different name so that “certain people… Continue reading The Book I’m Scared to Let You Read
Thank you London Writer’s Salon This weekend I did something I’ve been turning over in my mind since I signed up for it: I joined the London Writer’s Salon’s 24-Hour Writing Sprint, wrote through the night without sleeping, and came out the other side with four manuscripts in various states of completion and a very specific kind of tired that… Continue reading I Wrote for 24 Hours Straight. Here’s What Happened.
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 two new projects have both in… Continue reading The Archive Breathes Back
(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 more than I’d like to admit… Continue reading The State of Things
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 or a cry for help. Possibly… Continue reading The Static
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 mania, because that is exactly what… Continue reading Where I've Been (Spoiler: Haunted by Deadlines)
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 — you find the voice. The… Continue reading On Voice, and What Happens When You Lose It in the Sequel
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 Maxine, a woman suffocating in a… Continue reading The Lost & Forgotten Library
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 the specific ways I am allowed… Continue reading I Spent Three Days Building a Museum for Dead People and I Have Notes
