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odds & ends
I’ve spent the past few weeks absorbed in domestic and international politics and it is exhausting. I’m genuinely frightened about the direction our country is headed, and I only hope that people...
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show me the goodreads love
Hi, Friends! This is a short note (a plea) for all of my followers to check out my forthcoming novel, Follow Me Into The Dark, on Goodreads. I would be ever so grateful if you marked my novel “Want to...
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This Saturday it’ll be a year since I moved to California. I’ve lived in New York my whole life, never needed a car, failed the road test three times because I couldn’t parallel park and then my...
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odds & ends
“Can’t you just be like the rest of us, normal and sad and fucked up and alive and remorseful?” ― Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows I haven’t loved a book so hard since Lauren Groff’s Fates &...
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odds & ends
I’ve taken a hiatus from political news and election coverage, because even though I voted early I’m experiencing fatigue. Apparently, we’re all stressed and our connection to the truth is precarious,...
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if anyone tells you that writing novels gets easier over time, they’re crazy
The final draft of my second book, and yes, I still print things out. When you write a book, your first thought is: Can I do this? Can I be obsessed with something to a degree that it’ll sustain me...
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how I start a novel…
Lately, I’ve been feeling allergic to blogging and social media. While it’s a tool I use in my professional (non-writing) life, it’s one I’ve abandoned when it comes to my personal life. I’ve spent...
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when you’re the shiny new thing for sale
“The only thing you’ve got in this world is what you can sell.” ― Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman There she goes in her threadbare Willy Loman suit, hocking her life like it’s a vacuum cleaner she’s...
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picture ted bundy with a whisk and a head of red hair
When you ask me what influenced the creation of a novel about intergenerational mental illness and abuse, our sexist perception of the “good girl”, and the lengths children will go to forge a family,...
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spring reading list
I haven’t been to this space in a while because for the past year or so I’ve lived much of my private life offline. There’s something strange that happens when people read your words for years and...
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