This Is Not the Worst Yet
I am taking my wildly popular post written during the pandemic on my grief blog (forloveofevelyn.com) and adapting it here to address the...
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- Nov 11, 2020
- 4 min
Bookstagram OBSESSED
As an author, it's a given that I love books. But I also love book culture, book aesthetic, and especially book people. I've been a...
- Aug 20, 2020
- 2 min
THE SALT IN OUR BLOOD Cover Reveal
IT's HERE! Today is the cover reveal for THE SALT IN OUR BLOOD on Instagram at the profile of @mamabear_reads
- Aug 13, 2020
- 1 min
THE SALT IN OUR BLOOD Cover Reveal Coming Soon!
Aaaaahhh! I'm so excited to announce the cover reveal for THE SALT IN OUR BLOOD next week on Thursday, August 20th, on Instagram at the...
- Jul 31, 2020
- 3 min
Covid, Chaos, and Creativity
I feel I owe the world an apology. In March, the pandemic dropped over us all like a crop duster full of freeze-dried dog shit ground to...
- Jun 16, 2020
- 8 min
RESURRECTION GIRLS Reader's Guide
Please enjoy this small offering of a reader's guide to go along with the fancy new Resurrection Girls paperback cover. *Fair Warning: I...
- Mar 11, 2020
- 5 min
Inside the Writing Cave: The Unglamorous Truth Behind Being An Author
Every writer has one. A kind of energetic space they go to in order to create their work. It may take a literal shape in the world—a den...
- Jan 22, 2020
- 4 min
Writing vs. Editing
We authors are required to wear many hats — author, publicist, fedora, beret (preferably in raspberry ... See how I just slid that...
- Dec 2, 2019
- 3 min
The Salt In Our Blood - Releasing 2021
So this happened. I'm still wrapping my head around it. It feels a bit like a second lottery win. The first time, I mean, whoa. But...
- Nov 12, 2019
- 7 min
Doubling Down on Sad: Where Depression and Grief Collide
I originally posted this to my grief blog: forloveofevelyn.com, but decided to share it here because it deals with depression in addition...
- Nov 5, 2019
- 6 min
Social Media for the Emotionally Challenged
I'm not depressed. I am emotionally challenged. Actually. I'm grieving. And I have PTSD. And I'm depressed. It's a veritable Happy Meal...
- Oct 23, 2019
- 7 min
Post Release Blues
I'm doing that thing. That thing you're never supposed to do. That thing I have been warned against and keep doing anyway, where I get...
- Sep 16, 2019
- 8 min
The Novel I Wish I Never Wrote
They say life imitates art. I sincerely hope that isn't true. When my 18-year-old daughter unexpectedly died in her sleep two months...
- Jun 24, 2019
- 4 min
Writing on the Dark Side of the Moon
I have always been a lover of words and those things only words can build — stories, books, the voices of people with extraordinary...
- Apr 12, 2019
- 6 min
A Husky Lover Responds to Jerome Flynn
In totally unbookish news, Jerome Flynn — star who plays Bronn in Game of Thrones — has joined with PETA to post a video asking people to...
- Apr 2, 2019
- 2 min
Resurrection Girls Cover Reveal + New Website
Books take a long time to birth. To give you somewhat of an idea of the buildup to this moment, I began writing Resurrection Girls at the...
- Mar 1, 2019
- 3 min
Preventing a Tragedy like the Fosters'
In Resurrection Girls, main character, Olivia, is grappling with a family deeply paralyzed by their grief several years after the...
- Sep 12, 2018
- 4 min
Toxic Friends
The first time someone described the relationship between my main characters in Resurrection Girls as "toxic", it took me aback. I'm not...
- Jul 24, 2018
- 1 min
Our Story
If you're going to read my novels, if you're going understand me as a writer, as a mother, as a person, then you should know my story....