New interview! YASH3LF asks all the fun questions about REVERIE, drag, and beyond

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Hello! I have a new interview up for YASH3LF! We talked all about how REVERIE got its title, and dug into the logic behind the stories magic, the characters, and the infamous villain herself. I’m always excited to talk about this lil’ book, but I was especially excited to discuss details about Kane, REVERIE’s gloomy, dreamy hero. I also got to dig into my fixation on drag as a reality bending magic, which is obviously pretty central to one particular character that spends a whole lot of this book making things super hard for everyone else.

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Interview: The Sewers of Paris

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Last week, right before I left for my book research trip to CT, I set up a little recording studio for myself in my office (thank you OHO for the microphone!) and had a great conversation with Matt Baume, the mastermind behind The Sewers of Paris podcast.

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I’m going to Texas in March!

Some big news! This past month I applied for and got accepted into a weekend intensive writing program at The Writing Barn, in Austin, Texas! Woooo! The Rainbow Weekend Intensive, to be specific. A whole weekend full of writing, workshops, lectures, and I think at one point I get to paint a rock? I’m deliriously excited. I’m also anxious. Not about the rock, though. I am confident I can paint a rock. But a writing workshop?? For me?? Very suspicious.

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