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I am the author of two novels, Her Golden Coast and Driving by Starlight, which received starred reviews from Kirkus and Publishers Weekly. I’ve also written articles for Writers Digest, The Writing Cooperative, Mslexia and more, on everything from editing your novel to decolonizing your writing. And here on Substack, you hear it all first, absolutely FREE.

Still not sold? Here are some of my past posts. Take a look; see if any are your jam.

How-To posts about things I’ve learned along the way

• How to do the things that take a long time

• Turning your Type-A-ness into an asset

• How to deal with snobs

• How to discover spacetime

• How to honor your ambition (without being an ass)

• How to let people help you

• How to inhabit a space, or a sentence

• The path to success is paved with failed experiments

Posts about writing and the writing life

• Butt Time

• What is it you DO all day?

• What to do with your gorilla arms

• All these verbs go down like wine

• Going for the jugular… and the jewels

• Writers are Parasites

• The danger of a dominant frame of reference

• Writing and Storytelling aren’t the same thing

• Priority. Necessity. Practice.

• One Reader is Enough

• The pendulum swing between turtle and Icarus

• From Gestation to Germination

Posts about books I’ve been reading

• Yellowface and other out of body experiences

• Dostoyevsky in your purse, hope in your heart

• Robots, tea monks and fever dreams

• World-builders, world-killers and other world-changers

• When your body’s in business-class but your soul’s in economy

• What vicious children we once were

• Death to radio buttons