If you appreciate content warnings, then this post is for you. If you don’t care for them, or think they’re useless, or just don’t care, then this post is not for you. As a trauma survivor, I’ve been caught unawares many times—reading or watching a film or show—and I want to mitigate that harm for others if I can, with …
Decade
In June of 2012, I signed my first-ever book contract. I didn’t sign another until March 2021. In between, I learned my own hard limits as a newbie author as well as the boundaries of the publishing industry and some of its uniquely antiquated systems. I scaled the steep learning curve of self-publishing in the mid-2010s, picked up a few …
Reflections. Refractions.
Today is my final day as National President of Sisters in Crime. Don’t worry—this post isn’t going to be just a list of what I achieved. All the juiciest tidbits are behind-the-scenes stories which I can’t share anyway. *evil-girl-smirk.GIF* What I will say is the national board accomplished A LOT while I was president. We all had our unique circumstances …
Fifty x Five
Two years ago, I started planning a trip for myself to celebrate turning 50 years old in 2021. Alas, with the way things are now, that trip is not to be—at least not this year. Instead, I decided I would celebrate all August long. (FTR, I’m a Virgo, in case you hadn’t guessed at the “two years ago, I started …
A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to a Writing Career
The year I started querying agents with my first novel, I also started a volunteer “career” as a board member: president of the board for the neighbourhood preschool where my youngest was starting. So, really, it had absolutely nothing to do with a career as an author. Except that having my child in preschool gave me a small number of …
Seven Years of Good Luck
It turns out May 2020 is a big month for me. Delight, grief, new writing experiments, and now, a chance to look back at my debut novel. On this day in 2013, May 27th, DIE ON YOUR FEET was released into the wild. I published that book with a then-newish, cheerfully optimistic, and somewhat small imprint of a huge multinational …