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Sep 10, 2021
3 min

Writing Update: On My Gentle Return to Journalism

I wouldn't have guessed it would end up this way. A little more than five years ago, I decided to take a semester-long break from my...

Sep 3, 2021
3 min

Book Talk: On "Never Saw You Coming" by Erin Hahn | September 2021

When I finished Erin Hahn's More Than Maybe in the summer of 2020, I immediately rushed to write a review that could capture all the...

Aug 20, 2021
4 min

I Went on a Life-Changing Adventure and All You Get is This Blog Post

One day, I laughed so hard and full of carefree joy that I nearly peed my pants. One day, I sobbed with such intensity that I...

Jul 30, 2021
2 min

Nafiza Azad Wrote "The Wild Ones" To Reclaim Herself

The Wild Ones by Nafiza Azad, author of The Candle and the Flame (which was a finalist for a William C. Morris Award), is a feminist...

Jul 23, 2021
2 min

Writing Update: I Finished the Book

I finished the book. I'm still a little shell-shocked that I did it but I finished drafting a book. It has been so long since I've been...

Jul 9, 2021
3 min

Mini Book Reviews | July 2021

Let's do something fun! Instead of randomly sprinkling my blog with long reviews every few weeks, I'm going to try out a monthly...

Jul 2, 2021
6 min

Zoe Hana Mikuta, author of "Gearbreakers," on Religion, Writing, and Tattoos

When a publicist pitched me Gearbreakers, she described it as "high-octane." Now that I'm more than 80 percent through the book, I have...

Jun 25, 2021
2 min

Thoughts After a Rejection: On Pain

Here's the thing about rejections: they suck. They suck when you've been rejected for an article or book dozens of times, and they suck...

Jun 18, 2021
2 min

Finding Joy in California

I had never before stepped foot on the West Coast of the US. To be honest, I can't even remember what the most westward state I've ever...

Jun 10, 2021
5 min

Interview with Liselle Sambury, author of Blood Like Magic, a Futuristic Black Girl Magic YA

Blood Like Magic is a powerful debut novel by Liselle Sambury about a Black witch community in Canada several years in the future. It's...

Jun 4, 2021
3 min

✨ A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown | Book Review ✨

Roseanne A. Brown is the author of last year's bestselling A Song of Wraiths and Ruin and this year's upcoming (and highly anticipated)...

May 28, 2021
3 min

Update: This is How the Writing is Going

Spoiler: the writing is not going well. The Novel For months now, I've been trying to get a good start on my next novel — what I'm...

May 15, 2021
3 min

Awesome #AAPI Authored Books I Can't Wait to Read

In honor of May, which is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I wanted to highlight some books by Asian American or...

May 7, 2021
3 min

Counting Down with You by Tashie Bhuiyan | Book Review

From the first line of Tashie Bhuiyan’s YA contemporary debut Counting Down with You, I was hooked. I was so hooked, in fact, that I...

Apr 30, 2021
2 min

It's a New Dawn, It's a New [Blog]

I don't really have something cute or witty to say here, so I'll just say: welcome! If you've been here (and by "here," I mean my...

Feb 26, 2021
3 min

Blog Tour: "Amelia Unabridged" by Ashley Schumacher | Q&A

Hello and welcome to the blog, where today I’ll be posting a Q&A with author Ashley Schumacher in celebration of the recent release of...

Dec 27, 2020
4 min

Retrospective on 2020, in Writing and Reading Goals

The days after Christmas but before New Year's Eve are always a little hazy on the calendar. They're days where even my father, who...