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...

IT's HERE! Today is the cover reveal for THE SALT IN OUR BLOOD on Instagram at the profile of @mamabear_reads

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...

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...

Please enjoy this small offering of a reader's guide to go along with the fancy new Resurrection Girls paperback cover. *Fair Warning: I...

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...

We authors are required to wear many hats ⁠— author, publicist, fedora, beret (preferably in raspberry ... See how I just slid that...

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...

I originally posted this to my grief blog: forloveofevelyn.com, but decided to share it here because it deals with depression in addition...

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...

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...

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...

I have always been a lover of words and those things only words can build ⁠— stories, books, the voices of people with extraordinary...

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...

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...

In Resurrection Girls, main character, Olivia, is grappling with a family deeply paralyzed by their grief several years after the...

The first time someone described the relationship between my main characters in Resurrection Girls as "toxic", it took me aback. I'm not...

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....