Writes
Wren and Marlowe had been engaged one year and living in two separate apartments the entire time, because between Marlowe’s course load and her closing shifts at the diner, and Wren’s modest paycheck acquiring books for the university library, actual cohabitation had always seemed like a nice idea for someday. Someday arrived the week Wren’s lease ran out, and the… Continue reading Misfit House
I am currently editing Deliberately Lost. This is the part where I tell you what Deliberately Lost is about, because presumably that is why you are here and not because you have somehow wandered onto my blog by accident. Although, honestly, that would be on brand. Deliberately Lost is about Maxine Farrow, a woman who hasn’t finished a manuscript in… Continue reading Editing Deliberately Lost: I Am Trying Very Hard to Stay on Task
It has been a minute since I checked in, so I wanted to pop by with a little update on what I have been up to. Honestly, the writing itself has taken a bit of a back seat lately. Instead of drafting, I have been spending my time in a different kind of good company: Writing Hours over at ProWritingAid.… Continue reading A Quick Hello and a Little Update
There is a very specific kind of problem that happens when you are a writer. You get an idea. You think, Oh, that’s interesting. Then you write a little bit of it. And then a little more. And then, somehow, you look up three weeks later and realize you have been living in an entirely different book. Which is how… Continue reading I Forgot I Had a Blog
One Small Change Before This Book Goes Out Into the World If you’ve been following along, you might have seen me refer to book three of Inconveniently Haunted as Dead Reckoning. That title is retired now. The book you’ll actually be able to buy soon is called What Was Kept. Nothing about the story changed. Same house, same ghost, same… Continue reading What Was Kept
I owe you an update, and it’s a good one, because I’ve spent the last stretch living in two completely different corners of my brain at once. One foot in a rain-slicked European city with a woman who can’t stop chasing her grandmother’s ghosts. The other foot in Charleston, in a house that’s decided it’s done keeping secrets. Let me… Continue reading Two Books, Two Very Different Kinds of Done
Confession: there’s a version of Deliberately Lost that lived quietly in my drafts folder for years before it became a real book. The bones were always solid. Maxine, a travel blogger who cannot mind her own business (professionally, this is a feature, not a bug), decides to retrace the pre-wedding trip her grandmother Marion took across Europe decades ago. What… Continue reading Deliberately Lost Just Wrapped Its Final Edit, and I Have Feelings
A short story about a storage unit, two idiots who won’t say it out loud, and the fine print nobody reads. The bidding on unit 214 started at ten dollars, and Sam was already doing the math on resale before the auctioneer finished his sentence. Her math was always bad. It never once slowed her down. Wren stood a half… Continue reading Everything Must Go
Historically speaking, making a public pledge is a dangerous game. People hold you to things. They expect results. You successfully defend a doctoral dissertation, and suddenly society expects you to have your life together forever. You spend a few years writing about supernatural oddities and urban fantasy, and people naturally assume you have a direct, working relationship with every spectral… Continue reading A Formal Declaration of Intent, A Treatise on Consistency, and a Mild Warning Regarding Your Inbox
