Day 3: Who is Dahlia Devine?
Well, that’s actually Julien Baker, a musician I really like solo and as part of the band boygenius, but she worked as a little bit of a model for Dahlia [...]
Day 2: Sing Along with Me and Maren
Day 2 of the Wreck Your Heart Advent Calendar... Well, I couldn’t not talk about MUSIC, could I? I write to music most of the time. I don’t need to—I [...]
Free! Read my story, “The Woman from Rolling Stone”
Today starts my Wreck Your Heart one month countdown. Some may call it… an Advent Calendar? That’s right! We’re kicking off a month of daily posts to count down the [...]
Another STARRED REVIEW for Wreck Your Heart!
Wreck Your Heart got a STARRED REVIEW from Publishers Weekly! I’m thrilled, of course, but what I love the most is that I love this book, but I wrote it [...]
WRECK YOUR HEART gets a STAR from Library Journal!
STARRED REVIEW! Got the news this morning, burst into tears. Look. Writing a novel is a long haul, and this one? I put a lot of myself into it. I [...]
Why is Agatha Christie still so popular?
I think I’m officially the Agatha Christie expert of Chicago. The Midwest? I’ll take it. All that research for one book should be useful for something else! I was asked [...]
Cover reveal for WRECK YOUR HEART!!
Time to show you Wreck Your Heart’s pretty face! Chicago Review of Books is hosting a cover reveal for us today, along with a little behind-the-scenes about the design and [...]
I interviewed country legend Neko Case!
Sometimes this writer thing really pans out. Like the time I got to stay at Agatha Christie’s house, Greenway, in order to write about it? And this? THIS IS [...]
Free! Read my story, “[The applause dies.]”
I got started writing through short stories. I truly believe they are the best thing to write if you want to become a stronger writer quickly. But once I stared [...]
The Death of Us gets noticed… by you!
Hello, pretty blue baby! The Death of Us is a "most anticipated mystery/thriller for fall" on Goodreads, and I can't help thinking some of you have made this [...]
