Day 5: Country… But Don’t You Live in the City?
Why write about country music if you don’t live…in…the country? Answer one of many to come... "It’s been really cool to see the rest of the world come to love [...]
Day 4: A Song from Wreck Your Heart’s Playlist
One of the musical artists I listened to a lot in 2025 was Lainey Wilson. She’s very much more traditional country than most of what I listen to, but her [...]
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 [...]
