Writer living beside a cemetery with three good dogs and a Roomba. Novel: The Unmothers (Quirk 2024). Poetry book: Take This To Space.
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If you loved The Unmothers, good news! I wrote another super weird folk horror book just for you. Children of the Wrong Heaven is coming! 2027!
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Preorders are open for my next novel, Children of the Wrong Heaven! It's a weird fact that preorders really help authors, so if you're so inclined, please please please preorder!
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Between training horses and childbirth and a propensity for climbing trees I've had my share of injuries, so tell me why the deep stab of a sewing needle in my thumb is quickly becoming one of my most annoying injuries!!!??
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I have never heard a burn so bad as Molly Conger (Weird Little Guys) saying "I linked his doctoral thesis in the notes. You can judge for yourself."
No recovery. Absolutely devastating.
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Chapter 6 is live on my substack. The gang investigates the bunker and an unexpected visitor joins them on the island.
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I'm sort of thinking of this WIP as a reverse mystery. I.E. the story throws terrible evidence at my MC as she tries to run away from it as fast as she can.
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The problem with modern dating is that you think you want a Miss Piggy to your Kermit when you should be looking for a Statler to your Waldorf.
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"Trick or Peat!" I yell at the children. "Peat?" they ask, but it's already too late. They belong to the bog now.
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Chapter 5 of A New and Ancient Machine is live on Substack!
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My small son looked up at me and said "fist bumb." Obligingly I extended my fist to meet his. As they were about to meet he stuck up two fingers, pressed them to my closed fist and exclaimed "now it's a snail!" My God. The children are truly our future and the future is so bright
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Here it is! The cover for my next horror novel, Children of the Wrong Heaven.
A mommy support group becomes convinced their children are aliens. This deeply upsets the townsfolk around them…and also the aliens.
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You can preorder it now!
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It's very funny when you've grown up in a manipulative household and someone tries to blame shift or gaslight you and you become the old master with your robes fluttering in the wind, tip toe on the highest tower like "you fool. Do not bring me this weak-ass kung fu."
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