Dearest Squad, What with one thing or another, 11 chapters happened. Okay, not really. What happened was that I uploaded a bunch of chapters to Tapas (hello, new Tapas family!). Tapas is an app/platform that I began researching in 2024 as a possible place on which to release my super fun mainstream-reality-show-idol-romance-drama set in Korea…but then last year Carter…
Dearest Squad, A new chapter is now live! Chapter 28: The Luckiest of Men I often think about how much of this book could not have been written ten years ago. Like even just this chapter title, for instance, which was inspired by Harrison Ford’s magnificent Life Achievement Award speech at the SAG awards in March. “I am indeed…
Dearest Squad, A new chapter is now live! Chapter 27: Magnificent Sister of Ice, Snow, and Sky You can blame this chapter on Casey. Or, rather, you can blame this chapter on the fact that Casey had just taught “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” in one of her classes right around the same time I wrote this. We read…
Dearest Squad, A new chapter is now live! Chapter 26: Things Left Unsaid I refer to this as the “Mostly Dead” chapter, after that moment in The Princess Bride when Westley was only “mostly dead” but still had a ways to go. I needed these chapters, this break between all the action. The readers need a break. The characters…
Dearest Squad, The first draft of this chapter was a bunch of talking heads, as Thursday wakes up and has back-to-back heart-to hearts with Jack and then Silk. (Since I’m an ace at dialogue, my zero drafts often look more like scripts than novel chapters.) By the time I figured out what words really needed to be said between…
Dearest Squad, I have rewritten this chapter (and the next) so many times over the past 3? 4? months that I’m tempted to post this side-by-side with the original Chapter 24 I gave Sarah back in December, just so you can see how different they are. (Princess Sarah is currently on hiatus until I can afford to bring her…
Dearest Squad, “Le roi est mort, vive le roi!” has always been one of my favorite sayings. I’ve been reading books and speaking other languages for so long that I don’t even remember when I first learned it. “The king is dead, long live the king!” may sound like nonsense, but it refers to TWO different kings. In 1400’s…
This is the story about the giant moon sticker I’ve been meaning to tell you guys. But the universe knew I had to wait until today to tell it. You’ll see why. Alethea’s Magic Shop: https://www.amazon.com/shop/aletheakontisGiant glow-in-the-dark moon sticker: https://amzn.to/3OSq2aN I didn’t put up the giant glow-in-the-dark full moon sticker the day that I received it. My soul wasn’t…
Dearest Squad, The last 3 months have been so hard. Emotionally, financially, whatever. All of it. I did manage to write a short story for an anthology during January (it’s a near-future near-apocalyptic story called “Burn the Veil”), but getting back to THIEFTESS was so difficult. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve rewritten Chapters 24 & 25….
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Dearest Squad, This chapter is dedicated to my paternal…
Dearest Squad, I have no idea how to introduce…
Preorder THIEFTESS here! I think I summed up most…
