Enemies of the Every Day
As a writer, and as a person, I grapple with self-doubt, as I'm sure is true for many of you. But it is in the reminder from Sylvia Plath...
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Better
It's the eve of my 25th birthday, and I've felt so much building to this point; the quarter life crisis, the paralysis of this place in...
Finis
This time last week, I was handing over the *finished* draft of my manuscript to the best friend. I had spent the days leading up to that...
The Careful Undressing of Curses
Corey Ann Haydu's newest novel, The Careful Undressing of Love, offers an interesting premise: the girls of Devonairre Street are cursed....
Birthday Letter
Dear Sylvia, Your once beloved beau wrote a final collection entitled Birthday Letters that I have yet to read. But I read that today it...
Be Better
I was meant to write a post with a similar title just after the new year. But alas, life has already gotten in the way. The post I'd...
The Edge of Something Real
Tina Sears' debut novel, The River's Edge, is the kind of novel that will bring readers to the edge of something real. Following the...
Like Your Girls Insane
Upon finishing my submission for the TRAGEDY QUEENS ANTHOLOGY, which I have been working on for far longer than I might've imagined, I...
Emerge from Exodus
Emerging from my "off-grid" experience, I find Joanna Penn's words to be more true than ever: "Even if you plot your books, sometimes you...
The Call of the Hufflepuff
From the moment I saw Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them with one of my best friends, who is a proud Potterhead as well, I knew J.K....
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