Dearest Squad, I got home from my travels up north right before my birthday in January, and thanks to some pretty crushing anxiety and depression about my career (and Piper, and the state of the world in general) it took me over a month to get sleep and food and medicine and exercise and everything else back on a…
As we get ready for the THIEFTESS release on June 3 (preorder links and cover reveals coming soon!), all of the other books and stories of Arilland are going on sale! I had to stagger them all (for dumb Amazon reasons) so we’re starting with DEAREST, May 1-8 (This is my Associates link – if you use it I…
Dearest Squad, A new chapter is now live! Chapter 40: The Lucky Thief Before Scrivener, I used to keep Excel spreadsheets of my daily word counts. So I know what day I first started writing this novel: June 23, 2015. Eleven years is a long time. Because of that, I don’t always remember the exact order in which certain…
Joan Wilder was always my hero. I was 8 years old when Romancing the Stone released (my family owns movie theatres, remember, so I saw just about everything on the Big Screen). The day I met Joan Wilder I knew: I was going to be a writer. (You know, if the whole acting thing didn’t pan out.) Once upon a time, whenever I finished a…
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 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….
I always get a little thrill when I’m featured for being a storm chaser instead of being a writer. Is that weird? Granted, this exceptionally fun and funny Girls Who Chase profile of Chris and me talks about both these loves of our lives. Because we aren’t just women who chase, we are… AUTHORS WHO CHASE! And also…my hair…
Dearest Squad, I got home from my travels up…
As we get ready for the THIEFTESS release on…
Dearest Squad, A new chapter is now live! Chapter…
