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Subscribe to get full access to the blog, which focuses mostly on how I navigate writing through trauma, mental illness, and disability - but also includes writing excerpts, tips, industry info, and super special reveals.

Most of my content here will be free, but I will have a chunk that are for paid subscribers only (my dog has to eat, after all).

As a free subscriber, you get:

  • Access to the free posts that I share here

As a paid subscriber, you would get:

  • Exclusive excerpts/early cover reveals/early book deal announcements and summaries, etc

  • Whenever the spirit moves me to write another bit of fanfic, you’ll get to read it

  • Deleted scenes from past books

  • Guaranteed responses to your every comment

  • Access to every post, not just the free/public ones

  • The ability to sign up for 1:1 zoom consultations with me where we can discuss everything from books to writing to publication to life.

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I want this community to be an intimate one. I want us to be able to build real relationships and friendships, and have honest conversations—which is part of what I like about the mixed model. I’ll be able to share stuff with everyone, but I’ll also be able to have conversations with subscribers that I wouldn’t be able to have in “public.” Like…y’all want to hear the Real Shit about publishing? About life as a professional writer? Secret spoilers for future books? Headcanons and excerpts and author-created fanfiction? This is gonna be the place.

And we’ll talk. We’ll actually get to talk, in relative privacy, with a small group of likeminded people. I can tell you that for me, it’s been getting difficult to have the kinds of conversations with other authors + readers that I want to have on other social media platforms, for example. It’s very…visible, and public, and as my platform grows I am finding that I have less time to engage 1:1 with readers as I’d like to.

This will change all that.

My plan is to treat the free posts on this substack as a kind of hybrid diary and advice portal. Some of my posts will be me musing about writing and publishing—not Official Takes, just my unedited thoughts. Some posts will be formalized advice about the industry, querying, submission, etc. (I even kept a Very Honest Diary during the editing and submission process for A Lesson in Vengeance, which will be one of my paid posts eventually!) I’ll also occasionally solicit questions from subscribers and answer them on the paid posts (plus having the open discussion posts for subscribers, free excerpts, fanfiction, etc.).

Anyway, I hope you’re down to join me! I think it’ll be fun. :)

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usa today bestselling author: a shot in the dark | a lesson in vengeance | the fever king all that i talk about here is books and writing craft. (wait, that's a lie.) i do have free publishing tea, though.