had a fun day today 🧡

have you considered... her?

301 days until A FATE WORSE THAN DROWNING is released 😳 Fun fact: The name of the island featured in the book changed over the centuries, including Isle Verte, Rous' Island, and Wood Island until it was known as Devils Island (due to a misspelled last name) with permanent settlement in the 1830s!

What are you reading lately?? 👀 I'm nearly done THE STARVING SAINTS, just started A WITCH'S GUIDE TO MAGICAL INNKEEPING (only 6 days left on my libby loan haha), and reading PROJECT HAIL MARY before bed (trying to get back into reading physical books and not just audio).

a very good problem to have: how to i fit everyone in the acknowledgements asking for a friend i am the friend help there are too many people who have been very kind and great and cared about this book!!!

back into the watery abyss i go!!!!!

oh boy working on your second book pre-debut sure can be Mr. Bones' Wild Ride of confidence fluctuation huh!

hehehe 👀 A FATE WORSE THAN DROWNING among many amazing reads!!!

Worth remembering that anytime I say "it's happening!" I'm talking about the Stardew Valley getting another new update.

Reached "buzzing with excitement for an idea now that it's working" with Work 2 concept, folks ✨

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Last day of my vacation, coffee scented candle burning, Work 2 pitch doc is up, and the research doc is nearly 230 pages (don't worry about it that's totally fine and normal). Let's do this 😤😤😤

Got to see three vineyards, a cheese shop, an antique bookstore, a church-turned-brewery, a few farmers' markets, and some goats today!

Up to 80 adds already on goodreads before the cover or nearly any info is up for AFWTD!! 🥺🥺🥺🌊

Highlight of yesterday: Fun beach day off from work! Lowlight of yesterday: Emergency alert for a wildfire <10 minutes from my place 🙃 (we're fine!)

A very fun part of researching historical settings and topics is just how wrong people have been about stuff. Especially space stuff! While I love learning the true scientific facts, the hoaxes, bad assumptions, & bold "There's a secret second Earth. Source: my dreams" of it all are very fun too.

This is the exact feeling I had this afternoon when my coworker turned to me and said "so we're not allowed in the woods starting tonight" with no context. No wonder Nova Scotia makes good horror writers!

Today's fun book research fact: Ploonets! A ploonet, or tidally detached exomoon, is a hypothetical exoplanet that was once an exomoon before being ejected from orbit. This can be caused by the tidal force (difference in gravitational attraction) during planetary migration.

Kicking my feet and thinking about how it's less than a year until I share a historical fantasy that is a love letter to my maritime hometown and its long history of folklore, the care and fear within sisterhood, toxic sacrifice, the ocean, shipwrecks, lighthouses, ghosts, and feminist revenge 💙🌊

You know those books you feel lucky to have gotten to watch through their whole journey? @writelikeashark.bsky.social Joe's book is one of those for me. Can't wait to finally have this cosmic horror, small town, grief-filled delight on my shelf!!

Cover reveal, and release announcement!! My next book, Imperfect Creatures, is out 18th November! This is the weirdest and best thing I've ever written, and I'm so excited for people to read it. More news soon!!

One of my favourite parts of my process, even if I can't control when it happens, is the moment I find THAT particular obscure fact about a topic I'm exploring. Suddenly the kernel of the book has popped and everything I've been collecting has a new context that makes it feel "mine" as a story.

I'm reminded for the 19503th time as I work on these edits that writing is in fact a difficult skill you spend your whole life mastering and while that can be intimidating (like right now as I try to make my book Good™️), it's also beautiful in an age of AI to work so hard at something so personal.

Sometimes I consider changing my profile picture to something more professional/writer-ly, but it's from my very first ever author panel event and there's really nothing else that gives my vibe better 😎

This book is soooo good. I can't wait to see it out in the world.

Hazel's first fanart!!!!! 😍😍😍

We are now officially one year out to the day until A FATE WORSE THAN DROWNING, my debut historical fantasy novel, comes out!!!! I can't wait to share this book with the world. I know there are readers who will love Elle and Liney, the Nova Scotia folklore, devil's bargains and so much more 🌊 #✍️

Consider: her

Usually my writing and editing playlists are long, tailored lists of songs for each project. Dev edits round 2 for AFWTD has been a near constant string of analog horror videos. Make of that what you will!!

life footage of me realizing I can write another unhinged girl even Worse™️

this is what true love looks like (we let hazel sniff the strawberries while we put away the other groceries and she is frankly dionysian about it)

I can't wait to share my cover with everyone ☺️

this little goblin and her abyssal gaze is getting me through this edit round 😌

A phrase I found while researching, the energy of which I will be carrying with me moving forward.

It's officially edits round 2 summer! I've got my cute little drink (an iced mocha), plenty of vitamin D, and the hauntings of a murderous past, both literal and emotional, to polish up 👻

An important element of my character building is how can I make this girl the MOST dramatic about making the worst decision of her life while convinced she's saving the day 😌 Elle Forsyth, demonic lighthouse keeper and b̶e̶s̶t̶ worst big sister of the year award, 1861 ❤️

3 years since I married my best friend 💜 Since then we've moved home, adopted Hazel, he's become a doctor and postdoc, and I've got a spooky lighthouse book coming out next year - not too shabby!! 💜💜💜

they hate to see me coming with my 50 page research google doc that has been taken over mid-way through by a 16th century Danish astronomy rabbit hole. (I am they, why I am researching a new book)

Tonight's project ☺️

saw a cool bird!!! common gallinule

we may not have balloons on this app but 🎈🎈🎈32🎈🎈🎈 It's been a year of big firsts (switzerland! eras tour! book contract signed! author panel! editing pass!) and even more to come. Here's hoping for more good reasons to type away late into the night, and even better ones to stop and enjoy ❤️

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Got to room 46 today in Blue Prince on day 27!! The google doc for the notes is currently 52 pages long 😇

⭐️ bookish checkpoint ⭐️ 📚 Last book read: I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN by Jacqueline Harpman 📚 Current read: THE STARVING SAINTS by Caitlin Starling 📚 Last book added to tbr: AN ARCANE INHERITANCE by Kamilah Cole 📚 Next read: Not 100% sure - depends what comes through Libby!

I can have little a niche tumblr reference while reviewing my own book, as a treat

What does 2 months of developmental editing look like? Join my caffeinated journey!! Now A FATE WORSE THAN DROWNING (Summer 2026, Poisoned Pen Press/Sourcebooks) is back with my editor. I can relax, enjoy some reading time again, play some games, and look forward to my next round ✨ #2026Debuts ✍️

At this point I'll need to add "4-HOUR STUDY WITH ME 🗼 / CRACKLING FIRE SOUND ONLY 🏕️ / Tokyo at LATE NIGHT / timer+bell" to my acknowledgements

we truly love to see it "it" is MY DEV EDITS ARE DOOOOOOOONE

tiny baby reported at the scene staring into the void. when asked for comment, littlest bean slow blinked twice then stretched so big this reporter could only weep. more at 11.

"Don't get in your head about it!" is great except when you're writing books because that's where the book lives too 😔😔😔