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, […]
Every German Kid Knows Winnetou
How a 19th-century German novelist made me write a love story between two mythologies
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 […]
The Dead Boy in the Hills Is Why I Built Rules
How a fictional corpse taught me that magic systems need consequences
The Thing Nobody Tells You About Writing Two (Or Four) Love Interests
It’s not the spice. It’s the spreadsheet.