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Candidly sharing my book's journey to forthcoming publication. Enthusiastically recommending favorite reads. Frequently fangirling. Has too many thoughts. Please, take some.
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Chaos Chronicles: The Desk Strikes Back (opens the original)
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There comes a time in every writer’s life where she must come face to face with writing the thing that frightens her, the thing she does not want to say, the thing she’s been avoiding putting into words for a long time.This week, that time has come for me.Reader, I have really let myself go. Clutter in my home is overtaking my life. I’ve never been what you’d call a neatnik, but I used to have a battle handle on all this... stuff.I used to at least open the mail when it came in. Now, I often can
I’m sorry, who are you again? (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowConfession: I have a tendency to assume that people who meet me will not remember having met me. Why? Well, because a lot of people who meet me do not remember having met me. Many many people to whom I’ve been introduced later insist we’ve never met before.I used to awkwardly insist that we had met, and back it up with proof born of my very precise memory for very mundane details. I’ll say something like, we met at that block party 9 years ago and you were wearing t
When you can make “I’m a d**k” memes about your husband because Netflix said it first. (opens the original)
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The following is the fourth post I ever wrote on Substack and by far my most shared. I’m re-upping it today because now, finally, more than a year and a half after I first wrote about it, the movie in this post is available to stream on Netflix. **Run, don’t walk, to see this film. Not just because it currently has 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Or because the trailer features a bunch of people calling my husband a dick. (Though that part never gets old for me!) See it because it gives a much needed a
Strange Bookfellows: An interview with Leah De Forest (opens the original)
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We grew up on opposite sides of the planet (Australia and New Jersey), with different interests in school subjects (science and…. not science) and early professions (journalism and film production), but the universe knew what it was doing when it had Leah De Forest and I cross paths, first at our MFA writing program back in 2018 and then again in the wilds of the internet, where we reconnected over the fact that we both had debut books coming out this fall and were quick to congratulate each oth
Anatomy of a book cover (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowToday, I welcome special guest Susan Pickover of Pickover Designs, who has been my friend since the mid-90s and who also happens to be the artist responsible for the stunning book cover of my forthcoming collection MARVELOUS FREAKS OF NATURE!<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZZYf!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-
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