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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, […]

I built a garden and rewrote a book (my body hurts)

Hey there, So I built raised garden beds. Ordered them online, figured “how hard can this be?” and the answer is: the assembly took three days, which was the easy part. Filling them with soil and sand? I’m two weeks in and still not done, because wheelbarrows full of earth are absurdly heavy and shoveling […]