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WAKE THE WILD CREATURES: My New Novel Is Coming

WAKE THE WILD CREATURES: My New Novel Is Coming

New book in Summer 2025! Here are 25 truths about it...

Introducing The Words Around Us

Introducing The Words Around Us

On creating a new author newsletter and what I want this place to be

Black-and-white image showing a wooden chair thrown into a cloudy sky.

From the Archives

The Waiting Room

The liminal space between book projects. Taming ideas. Embracing the wait.

A full moon hangs in a turquoise sky above the outline of a craggy mountain range.

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Alien Landscapes

The changing landscape of publishing. Book fears. Finding the wonder again.

A claustrophobic room with pink wallpaper has one window. The glass is broken but it looks outside at the trees.

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Haunted Houses

Bad dreams. Working in publishing. The fear of the unknown.

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Conversations with the Other Side

Spirit boards. Playing with danger. The struggle to finish a novel.

An unreadable blur of neon light in bright pink, yellow, and blue surrounded by a dark night. Raindrops patter the glass.

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Tell Me My Destiny

Premonitions. Scams. The precarious dream to become an author.

A wide stretch of dark, stormy sky with a bolt of lightning cracking through the ominous clouds.

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Omens

Literal dumpster fires. Publishing pitfalls. What authors can still control.

A bright streak of unidentified orange and yellow light coming down from the night sky over the dark shadows of the treetops.

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Unidentified Flying Objects

Birthmarks. Not belonging. The selves we insert into our books.

A close-up side view of a skeletal staircase. The photograph is dark but for a ray of sunlight on two steps.

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Fear of Falling

Fears. Unhappy accidents. Writers following their own timelines.

The Book That Got Me Unstuck

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The Book That Got Me Unstuck

So-called writer's block. Creative breakthroughs. Writing for yourself again.