Five years ago today, The Beckoning Shadow released into the world. I went from “writer” to “published author”. Launch party with people who made me feel so loved, stock signings, a Kirkus Star, blurbs, a cake with my cover
So I’ve been keeping something a secret. Hence the corner of the screen. 🤐🤐🫢 When I say these past couple months have been a mixed bag, I mean that. It’s been so weird to have such joy and heartbreak jumbled together. The heartbreak
It was a week. It’s been a year, really. Real mixed bag, honestly. Good news mixed with “next time” and “unfortunately”. Life-changing cool stuff while our fridge breaks and we’re putting our perishables in a co
✔️Four loads of laundry ✔️Two grocery runs ✔️One outline for something cool and secret (😈) 🚫Copyedits for The Hushed 🚫Stop overthinking copyedits and second-guessing word choice for every small thing, you moron ✔️Write-up for something else coo
Behold, a picture of me from a couple days ago before the weight of revisions hit me — we have copyedits, baby! THE HUSHED is getting my red pen treatment for the last time before she goes to print ✨🔥💀 And yes, that is a Manon Blackbeak t-sh
✨THE HUSHED, coming out 10/1/2✨ “Eerie Ashwood may look like a regular college student—she has a job at a local diner and attends classes at the community college—but she’s not. She’s a Hushed, a living secret made of f
✨✨Something spooky this way comes✨✨ The cover & preorder for THE HUSHED, my adult fantasy debut from @blackstonepublishing, goes live THIS FRIDAY, 5/24. If you like mysteries, fantasy, romance, and my brain generally… boy do I have the
when your book comes out in six months and you’re trying to be aesthetic but you pretty much always only wear your sister’s old cropped t-shirts and sweatpants and hang out w/ your cats— I need to start haunting coffee shops and ol
(Tw: s/h) 21 years ago, on a gloomy spring day just like this one, I stopped going to school. I stayed home alone during the day, curling into myself like a burning piece of paper. I watched Treasure Planet and Lost Boys on repeat and read Anne R
I am writing something I don’t think will ever sell. Which tends to mean I’m writing something that makes me happy and reminds me why I wanted to do this whole writer thing in the first place. There’s magic in the “fuck it, th