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What’s scarier—the spookiest neighborhood in R

What’s scarier—the spookiest neighborhood in Raleigh or the home haircut I tried to give the littlest? (He looked like Lloyd from Dumb and Dumber. Bless Supercuts for fixing it.) It was a no-school day and just perfect weather for one of our favorite parks. *And* AT&T showed up to bury the internet cable which was very interesting and also hooray, no more mowed-over internet!

I’ve been without internet for the weekend (stil

I’ve been without internet for the weekend (still-unburied internet cable got mowed) so here’s a belated picture from yesterday’s soccer game that I was sure would get rained out. It was breezy and damp and super beachy feeling.

One of the things I’ve loved most about launchin

One of the things I’ve loved most about launching my book is talking with book clubs, so I could not be more excited that The Baddest Girl on the Planet was named one of the National Women’s Book Association’s Great Group Reads for 2021. And oh my gosh, you should see the book club kit @blairpublisher worked up! Link in bio to the announcement, and I’d love to show off that book club kit and also Zoom in to any book club chapters who read the book! #greatgroupreads #greatgroupreads2021 #womensnationalbookassociation @wnba_books

The littlest and I went to one of my favorite park

The littlest and I went to one of my favorite parks today, a magical, charming, surprising little spot with mythical creatures and ivy-twined arches and rainbow mist. Little Guy has started pretend play recently, and it’s so much fun to hear him tell stories about how the lion-faced-squirrel got turned into a statue, and to watch him steal pickles off the dragon’s back and blame it on a bandit. It reminded me of getting into a really good flow of writing, when you just sort of let go and play and see what happens next. Getting to that point isn’t easy (I spent my entire work time on Tuesday too tired to do much of anything) but when it does happen, hooray, grown up play!

During particularly self-doubt-ish periods of my M

During particularly self-doubt-ish periods of my MFA, I’d hold this daydream in my mind of going back to my undergrad college as a published author, talking with students, getting to be the person I’d looked up to when authors visited when I was there. Today, it happened. And while it wasn’t a physical homecoming (thanks, Delta variant, you pile of crap), I loved every minute of talking with these Muskies and Dr. Varley, my mentor. I was telling them that it occurred to me this morning that Baddest Girl is the direct descendent of a setting prompt in Dr. Varley’s Intro to Creative Writing class. So funny to think about how this project that I spent years on sprang to life out of a homework assignment to write a descriptive paragraph! Anyone out there have interesting genesis stories for their current projects?
#muskingumuniversity #muswithakkinwithaggumwithamuswithakinwithagumwithamuskingum #creativewriting

You all have heard me talk about my Writing Soulma

You all have heard me talk about my Writing Soulmate, @jencolatosti , right? My WSM, my Writing-Ride-or-Die, and our delightfully productive codependency wherein we share and critique everything we write and have done so for the past, gosh, dozen or so years now? Well. I get to DO AN EVENT WITH HER. !!!!!!!! I could not be more excited. Jen knows this book inside and out. She’s the one who figured out the title of the book when I was trying to shoehorn it onto one chapter. My writing would never have evolved as much as it did without her input and smart suggestions and her intuiting exactly what I was trying to do in any particular rough patch and how to get it working. AND WE GET TO DO AN EVENT TOGETHER!!!! October 14, friends. Zoom. Link in bio. #writingsoulmate #writingevent #inconversation

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