Tag: Hamartia

Writing

Announcement! Book Release!

Welcome to the world, Deus Ex Machina! 🎉 I’m proud to introduce Hamartia’s sequel, Deus Ex Machina, born on November 18th, weighing 276 pages. Author-mom and book-baby are doing fine. (That’s a lie. One of us is freaking out.) If this sounds like a birth announcement, that’s because it kinda is. Writing a book and then putting it out into the world feels very much like sending a child I’ve raised out there to fend for themselves. I’ve done all I can, now it’s in the world’s hands. Please be kind to my baby. Grace has lived in my head […]

Writing

An update from my rabbit hole

Happy New Year! Wait… are we past the point where it’s okay to say that? Sorry, I’ve been busy. But I’d like to take a moment to breathe and to tell you all what I’ve been up to. Why haven’t I written a blog post in a dog’s age? Because I’ve been deep in a rabbit hole writing my next book! I’ve proudly written 150 pages in three short months. Inspiration comes at the strangest times when I least expect it. I can’t control it or stop it and sadly, I can’t make it happen on demand either. I wish […]

Writing

Fearless chicken-shit!

It took two years for me to tell people I was writing a book. I told my husband when I reached the 25 000 word count. It was spring, 2013 and I had already been writing the book for almost nine months. His reaction was, “OMG, this is going to be a trilogy! I can’t wait to see the movie!” He thinks I walk on water. But I stopped writing. Then, in February of 2014, I went to Vietnam on a three week trip by myself and started telling people I met there that I was writing a book. It […]

Writing

Meet my friends Lucid & Lazy

Question – How does a screaming woman at an airport tie in with my visit to the Science Museum that inspired the story HAMARTIA? While in a meeting, I wrote the vivid airport scene that constantly ran in my head simply to make it stop. Period. I didn’t know what I would do with it if anything, but I freed it from my mind so I could get back to living my life. But then it happened again. Another scene manifested in my head. This time, the event that played on repeat was a funeral on a sunny day and […]

Writing

Where HAMARTIA began

Literally, the writing of HAMARTIA began on a notepad during a boring management meeting. But the idea of HAMARTIA began with a conversation in London England with my then 14-year-old son at the Science Museum. It was July 2012 and we were in London England celebrating Liam’s graduation from elementary school. Although I had positioned this trip as a celebration, it was actually my selfish way of spending time with my baby before he started high school in September and turned into an asshole. High school was when every kid started behaving like wild animals released from captivity, right? We […]