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A Wilderness of Stars

A WILDERNESS
OF STARS

With a mysterious illness cursing the
land, it’s the stars that hold the key
to the cure.

Long Live the Pumpkin Queen

LONG LIVE THE PUMPKIN QUEEN

Jack and Sally are "truly meant
to be"...or are they?

A History of Wild Places

A HISTORY OF WILD PLACES

A missing author.
The psychic hired to find her.
Nothing is what it seems.

Winterwood

WINTERWOOD

Be careful of the dark, dark wood.

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THE WICKED DEEP

Welcome to the cursed town of Sparrow.

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💜 THE BEAUTIFUL MADDENING is dedicated to my gr

💜 THE BEAUTIFUL MADDENING is dedicated to my grandmothers. To all the women who came before me, who crossed oceans to start new lives, who told their stories, who stood bravely against the odds. 🌿 Grateful isn’t a big enough word.

Messy writing desk. All the sticky notes. 🌿 Pol

Messy writing desk. All the sticky notes. 🌿 Polishing up HABITS OF THE SEA. 🌊 This has been a temporary writing space for me—for so many reasons I won’t go into. But life is always shifting. And I’ve loved the simplicity of this little room. None of my other books were written here. There aren’t a few hundred books stacked on the floor. It feels like a clean slate. 🌻📖🌿

🌻 I was daydreaming about snow today. Longing f

🌻 I was daydreaming about snow today. Longing for it. ❄️ The cool, softness of a landscape drenched in a layer of cloud crystals. 🌚 While I’m grateful for these warm, summer days. Sometimes I miss another season. One that has already happened, or hasn’t happened yet.

Are you enjoying your season, wherever you live? 🌙

🥹 So in love with the gold foil stamped into th

🥹 So in love with the gold foil stamped into the hardback. 💛🌿📖 The interwoven tulips & crescent moon feel like their own magic spell. ☺️🌙 Thank you all for sharing your photos & kind words for the release of this little love story. 🙂💜 It’s been so fun seeing all your posts.

Reminder: this limited edition stamped hardback is ONLY available for the first printing of THE BEAUTIFUL MADDENING. You can find it wherever books are sold. 🌷 Once this first edition is sold out, they won’t be printing anymore.

She’s here. 🌷 My 6th novel, THE BEAUTIFUL MAD

She’s here. 🌷 My 6th novel, THE BEAUTIFUL MADDENING is officially on bookstore shelves. 📖 This one feels like a big sigh of relief. A lot has happened in the last two years—the two years it took to finish this book. And while it’s a quieter novel than my previous books, I think I needed softness to help me through these last couple years. 💜 I needed gentleness. 🌿🌻🌙 Thank you all for your support, your kindness, & for continuing to show up for my stories. 🌿 Each book I write feels like wandering through a shadowy forest, searching for the ending, and when at long last, the finished book reaches YOUR hands, YOU (the reader) gets to walk that same path. ✨ We share in the story together. Each of us finding something we need within the words & margins. 📖

I hope you find something in this story. A soft place to rest your mind for a while. An escape into the far edges of the known world. ☺️ Thank you for wandering this path with me. 💜

(Apologies for the backlit, blurry photo. I was home alone so I had to manage it solo. 😉)

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🌿 I’m finally holding the hardback of THE BEA

🌿 I’m finally holding the hardback of THE BEAUTIFUL MADDENING in my hands. 🥹 My copies from my publisher were likely lost in transit, but today my local indie bookstore was kind enough to give me a damaged copy that they had, so I could hold my story in my hands before it’s officially on bookstore shelves tomorrow. 💜☺️ These feel like the last few moments alone with my story, before it will be shared with the world. 🌻

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Tomorrow. 🖤🌷✨ THE BEAUTIFUL MADDENING will

Tomorrow. 🖤🌷✨ THE BEAUTIFUL MADDENING will be on bookstore shelves TOMORROW! Eeeeeeee!!! 📖🥹

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🌻 When I was 10 years old I started querying ag

🌻 When I was 10 years old I started querying agents. I had written a short story & I sent out snail-mail letters to literary agents in NYC. ✉️ Every day I would ride my bike down to the mailbox to see if I had gotten any replies. 🚲 Slowly I began receiving letters back from agents, they were all rejections. And yet, somehow, I was thrilled by every single rejection. 🌿 They felt like proof: It was in fact possible to become a published author, I just needed to write a book good enough to be published. A book they would say “yes” to. 🙂 It lit a fire within me. I had a goal, and that 10 year old girl wasn’t going to give up on herself or her dream. 🌻 So I kept writing. Constantly. Endlessly. I spent my childhood buried in stories, I read everything I could. I grew up, I worked jobs, but I kept writing. And in 2008 I began querying again. There were lots of rejections in the next couple years, I wrote several books, until the one that landed me offers from multiple agents & then went to auction where it received multiple offers from publishers. 🌿

Rejection isn’t proof that you’re chasing the wrong dream. It’s fuel to keep going. ✨

I hope you’re chasing a dream today. One that feels too big. Too foolish. I hope everyone doubts you. Tells you to give it up. Those are the reasons to keep going.

In 3 days, my 6th book will be published by @simonteen. 🤓💜🌿 So grateful to my 10 yr old self who never gave up.

🌿🌿🌿

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Only 4 more sleeps until THE BEAUTIFUL MADDENING i

Only 4 more sleeps until THE BEAUTIFUL MADDENING is on bookstore shelves!!! 😱🖤🌷🌿📖

This heartbreak of a story has waited a long time to leave my brain and reach you all. 🙂 I hope you enjoy it. 💜

It’s available wherever books are sold on June 3. 🌿 Today is the last day to pre-order a signed copy from @roundaboutbooks. ✨ Links in bio. 🌷
The audiobook will be available as well. 🎧

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Taking things slow today. 🌿 It was so fun signi

Taking things slow today. 🌿 It was so fun signing & personalizing all your pre-orders of THE BEAUTIFUL MADDENING yesterday. 🤓 So many of you were there from the beginning—I can remember personalizing your copies of my debut book THE WICKED DEEP back in 2018. 🖤 So grateful that you’ve supported each of my stories along the way. 🌻🙂

Today I’m resting, moving slow, watching the clouds move in from the south. I went on a short walk in the woods early this morning, now I’m handwriting a few notes for my current secret book. 📝

I’ll be signing & personalizing the last batch of books this weekend. So you have until the end of day tomorrow (Friday, May 30) to get your orders of THE BEAUTIFUL MADDENING in. ✨ Link in bio. 🌿

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