I’m behind on posts, per us… yooj? (Not sure how to translate the slang, but I’m not alone). Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to interview my friend and fellow Novel [...]
Last week, I sat in my tub Tornado Alley-style (because jackhammers outside my house) to talk with my first GrubStreet writing instructor, James Scott, all-around good guy and author of the [...]
Originally posted at Dead Darlings. Last Thursday, I had a total breakdown in the Harvard Square post office. I was in the process of writing a message to my dad in my debut novel, Cottonmouths, [...]
Day Date at the Museums, Fairyland Review, Boy Erased, Novel 2 Revision Doesn’t Suck, and #holdthedoor
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Highlights My girlfriend treated me to an all-day date last Sunday. We started in Harvard at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. The Peabody is a wonderful little museum full of [...]
Debut Novel to be Published; Novel Incubator Folks; We Love You, Charlie Freeman; Hair Trauma; and Sunday Runs are Hard AF
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Highlights My debut novel, COTTONMOUTHS, will be published in Spring 2017 by Skyhorse. WHAT?!? What a crazy and fantastic week. Got lots of book love from various friends both online and off, and [...]
Highlights I planned and booked a three-leg, two-week trip to Chile (including internal flights), so I feel like a travel champion. Why Chile? My girlfriend and I were watching Netflix’s [...]
Highlights Every month, I have to write a Dead Darlings post. Every month, I curse myself for signing up for monthly posts. Every month, I complain that my creative well has run dry. Every month, [...]
Highlights I broke through the Novel 2 wall of despair that I recounted in my latest Dead Darlings post. I needed to go through my whinycrankybabybitchypants phase of the process. And I got a [...]
Thrilled to announce that my friend, collaborator, and client (I’m going for an EGOT of friendship levels, clearly) Jennie Wood’s debut Young Adult novel has been nominated as a [...]
My latest Dead Darlings blog post is now live: My Novel Incubator instructors loved to tell us to kill our characters. Most of us came into class with drafts bloated with characters who served no [...]
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