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Hey friend, It’s the middle of May and Ireland has apparently not received the memo. My kitchen garden is out there cowering under another wave of showers, and I’ve got the heating on like it’s February. I’ve abandoned my usual black tea for peppermint and green tea with ginger, which feels like a seasonal betrayal, […]

This playlist has been open since 2017

This playlist has been open since 2017 A hundred songs and the emotional crutch of writing to music The playlist started the week I drafted the first chapter of Spirit Hunger. I needed something that sounded like running through a forest at night, and Spotify handed me Faux Tales’ “Atlas,” which was close enough. I […]

Spirit Elfen is live 😍

Hey there, If you’ve been following the saga of our 1860s house renovation, here’s the latest: the new kitchen is plastered and ready for painting. Sounds great, right? I’d forgotten how physically hard it is to paint a large room. I can just about reach the top of our 14-foot walls with an extension pole, […]

Why a 14th-century manuscript and a 180-foot hole inspired Spirit Elfen

Why a 14th-century manuscript and a 180-foot hole inspired Spirit Elfen What I found in a Heidelberg library and on a hill near the castle The Codex Manesse is a 700-year-old book of love songs with strange creatures painted across its pages. And the Heidenloch is a pit on a hill outside Heidelberg, Germany, 180 […]

I’m about to walk through the set of my own book

I’m about to walk through the set of my own book Back in the city where Spirit Elfen lives Spirit Elfen is set in Heidelberg. I’ve been proofreading it for months. This week I’m flying back to Germany to see my mom, and Heidelberg keeps living in two places at once: on the page, where […]

Ella’s dark shelf: 3 books that kept me up past midnight

Hey there, I’m back from Germany. It was a whirlwind of a trip, in on Monday and out on Friday, and most of it was either driving or sitting with my mom. Almost no writing happened, and that wasn’t really the point of going. She’s doing well, but she didn’t want to go outside, which […]

Five questions for Honi (he answered four) 🖤

Hey there, I’m in Germany this week to visit my mom. After the stretch of cold, wet weather we’ve been having in Ireland, a few days of spring sunshine and warm temperatures are going to feel like a reward. My mom can’t walk anymore, so the best version of this trip is me getting her […]

The books I had to rewrite because I couldn’t hear my heroine

The books I had to rewrite because I couldn’t hear my heroine On Adi, Spirit Elfen, and the difference between third person and first What’s wrong with the books?!? Spirit Hunger came out in 2017. It was my first novel. I wrote it in third person because that’s what I thought you were supposed to […]

A crazy week in Ireland, not unlike the run-up to Covid, tbh!

Hey there, I told myself I’d never write about politics in this newsletter, and I’m not about to start. But last week here in Ireland, things went a bit sideways and I haven’t quite shaken it off, so you’re getting it now as well, lol The fuel prices jumped overnight, and within a day, farmers, […]