5 years a citizen
I’ve now been a US citizen for five years. This country has changed a lot in that time. Am I still glad to be part of it? Yes. Would I like it to improve? Yes.
Read moreMonth: Feb 2018
The best bread in the world
I love the emmer and rye loaf from Damsel & Hopper bakeshop in Wallingford, Seattle. And it actually seems to be good for me!
Read moreSo Lucky cover!
A dark and dangerous cover to match the blurbs that have started to roll in for my upcoming novel, So Lucky.
Read moreMonster reveal coming tomorrow!
A wee tease of the So Lucky cover before tomorrow…
Read moreReading February 17
Here are the books I’ve read or abandoned in the last month, what I’m reading now, and what’s on my TBR list.
Read moreIn praise of short novels
Short packs a powerful punch, and no matter how different from the rest of the author’s ouevre the book may seem, I think you still get a taste—an echo, if you like, or maybe a harmonic—of that writer’s concerns.
Read moreA piece in Catapult about representation
Out yesterday, an interview I did with Marian Ryan for Catapult in which I chat about the importance of seeing characters like ourselves in fiction.
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