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TT writer ✍️ Fiction reader 📚 Sometimes professor | same handle on IG! Debut novel--Ibis | Overlook Press | Feb 2025
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What is your fave writing instrument? Mine may surprise you--the Fullfölja gel pen from IKEA! Fell in love with it years ago when I bought a pack on a whim, so I bought a few more bc I knew they would be discontinued. Sadly, I'm on my last pack. 😢 #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #IKEA #amwriting

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

One of my fave Qs from #Debutiful: what's on yr writing syllabus? Great Q bc I build my syllabi squint! What's that mean? No one knows what it means but it's provocative! Check it out! Texts include the Village Voice! Hop in yr DeLoreans &grab a vintage copy! #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity

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Wow! Me & my little debut (Ibis) will be on a panel with Lisa Ko (The Leavers) & Rita Bullwinkel (Headshot) 2 faves of @barackobama.bsky.social at the LA Times Festival of Books in 2 weeks (April 26)! Come hang out! events.latimes.com/festivalofbo... #Debutnovel #5amwritersclub #LATimesfob

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Great, just great! Went to Publix, got mugged for 50 beans for about 6 items, and now Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down" is stuck in my head! That's it! Writing done for the day! Bah! #writingcommunity #5amwritersclub #debutauthor #bookworm #amwriting #writinglife #TomPetty #contemporaryfiction

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Been raining in Atlanta for what feels like 24 hours. I'm not a fan. Usually storms/rainy days give me a headache and today's no different. But I've been trying to power through and get down a few words. #5amwritersclub #amwriting #contemporaryfiction #bookworm #literaryfiction #debutnovelist

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

I'm >so< lost in funhouse of this new short story; though only April 2nd, I've finished 1 notebook & begun another. A little directionless, but words are coming? So there's that. Hope you're also getting words! #amwriting #5amwritersclub #bookworm #writingcommunity #Booksky #writinglife

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Had a great time at a book event in St. Louis at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation. Squeezed in some hotel writing time. Love to @Leftbankbooks.bsky.social, St. Louis's oldest indie bookstore, for stocking my book! ☺️💚 #Amwriting #bookworm #writingcommunity #Amwriting #Booksky #writinglife #litfic

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Why am I awake in the middle of the night? Because I was drowsing off in an amazing sleep...then roused myself for proper oral hygiene, and now here I am among the other waking dead. 😑 #amwriting #writingcommunity #bookworm

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

Today's the UK release of my novel Ibis! I am chuffed. I researched slaveholder letters at 2 libraries. Part of the novel includes letters of a Scot slaveholder based in Jamaica that detailed human sales. One of the more difficult sections to write. 😞 #5amwritersclub #bookworm #writingcommunity

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