I’ve been thinking lately about conceptualizing a book as a machine, partly because I was pondering the choice of that word in the message on Woody Guthrie’s guitar, and partly because “machine” is a broad category which is useful for considering the […]
My latest novel, The Valkryie, is out in the world! It’s available in ebook and audiobook everywhere — and let me just say something about the audiobook, because I’m listening to it now, and oh my goodness, when I got to Chapter […]
Music is a big part of my writing life, and I make a playlist for every novel, to help me keep a sense of the novel’s themes and tones in my mind. I may play it while I’m working, but more often, […]
She could not remember a time when she had not known the story; she had grown up knowing it. That’s the opening line of The Hero and the Crown, the 1984 fantasy novel by Robin McKinley. Funnily enough, I can’t remember the […]