Hello, friends! I am still healing from the wisdom tooth extraction and feeling cross about my soup/hummus/pudding subsistence diet. So! Much! Slime! But I don't want to talk about that. Instead, I'd like to share some of the sources I consulted when writing "The Legendary Garrett Girls". As you probably know, I adore research. In this case, though, my research began entirely by accident, with … [Read more...]
First pass pages
Hello, friends. A few weeks ago, I wrote about re-reading; I'm here today to talk about a different kind of re-reading. Recently, I went through the first pass pages of "The Legendary Garrett Girls". That's the title of my short story in Jessica Spotswood's upcoming A Tyranny of Petticoats - a collection of 15 short stories about girls in American history, to be published by Candlewick Press … [Read more...]
The Legendary Garrett Girls
Hello, friends! Last week, I sent off the first clean draft of my short story, "The Legendary Garrett Girls". It's going to be one of fifteen stories in an anthology called Petticoats and Pistols, edited by Jessica Spotswood and published by Candlewick Press. This is only a first draft, and there are several rounds of editing to come. Still, I'm thrilled to have a full, clean draft … [Read more...]
5 Things About My Work-in-Progress
Hello, friends. The other day on Facebook, my friend Stephanie Burgis posted her answers to a meme, "Five Things About Your Work-in-Progress". I was delighted! I read it, thinking, "Oh, it's so great to hear more about what she's up to!" Then I realized that I, um, NEVER talk about my work-in-progress. One reason is because I'm constitutionally secretive and vaguely superstitious about unpolished … [Read more...]