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…
I’ve written before about how I strive to hit emotional highs and lows, and I do. But ideas, not feelings, are what keep me writing (and reading). I sit down to write a new story because I have some itching thought that I can’t work out any other way. I Read more…
I start probably half of my conversations by saying, “I heard on a podcast…” Recently, I listened to an episode of No Stupid Questions called Why do we forget so much of what we’ve read? It featured the regular hosts, psychologist Angela Duckworth and economist Stephen Dubner, discussing the extent Read more…
Growing up, I was almost unconsciously tracked into the same advanced classes as all of the other little girls — English, social studies, art. I loved it. I thrived. And clearly, because I’m blogging about my life and thoughts in advance of a book release, I am an artist, in Read more…
Sometimes this year has felt like the opening scenes to a disaster film. I’m far from the first person to make this observation, or to joke about the 2020 showrunners being overzealous in their writing. I mean, those murder hornets in the first act showing up briefly in the headlines Read more…