November and Other Liminal States
Finishing drafts and crying into my PSL.
This is me with a broken heart.
Grief, loss, and and the mess of continuing to live.
The White Cat of Destiny
Content warning: pet loss. This post will only be sent to blog subscribers and not my newsletter mailing list. When I wrote those words for The Wilderness of Girls, what seems like a lifetime ago, I was of course drawing on my own experience with grieving. I don’t know how those words felt to readers, […]
Welcome to Happy Valley.
First: The Wilderness of Girls is out now!
Second: Here is a weirdly disjointed blog post about the last two+ weeks! I started it pre-release and didn’t get back to it until June 26 because omg life, but I feel like it captures the truth of my experience better than re-writing it.
A Contradiction in Visibility
Please read my books and remember my name but also please do not perceive me.
A Huge Life Moment in Several Parts/Updates, to be Posted Long After The Events Therein
This post was written between January 8 – 25, 2023, but could not be posted due to industry secrecy. Read on to see how I processed *finally* selling my first novel.
“A bit monstrous.”
Compared to men, women are immature, deficient, deformed; they are even a bit monstrous. — Aristotle (more like AristLOL)
Letters from the Island of Ambiguous Loss
Dear Ghost,
I’m writing this letter in my best attempt to exorcise you.
Secrets! Or: I Got Fired From My Day Job and I Liked It
I’m going to tell you a secret: I think I’m actually a fucking AMAZING writer. Did that make you feel uncomfortable? Did you just think, “wow, someone’s full of herself”? I wouldn’t blame you if you did. We’ve all been programmed to think that if a person is proud of their ability, then they don’t […]
Spring, Sprang, Sprung
It’s officially SPRING! No, don’t look at the snow outside. Or the thermometer. Or the clouds obscuring the precious, golden, lemony sunlight… it is officially spring! JUST GO WITH IT. Spring, like many things in our calendar and in our world, is rife with symbolism and meanings that have been liberally applied by human beings since […]
Con brio
Imagine that the world revolves around music. Some of us play, some of us listen, most of us are critics or fans in one way or another. We exist in an auditorium with a stage that, over time, has evolved to become almost infinite. Not only infinite, but open to anyone, at any time. The […]