I'm Going on Tour!

I can't wait to see you! Where you live! If you live in one of these places!

Announcing the ON HER TERMS book tour

Dear Readers,

I am so excited to share with you the dates, locations, and incredible conversation partners for my book tour for ON HER TERMS!

I will be sharing so much more about this tour in weeks to come, but for now:

2/24 Los Angeles | Skylight Books with Kate Stayman-London

2/25 New York | The Ripped Bodice with Heather Hogan - note that this is a ticketed event so PLEASE BUY A TICKET which gets you a copy of the book and gets you in! (If you want to come and cannot afford it, please email me and let me know, I will be able to get some people in!)

2/27 DC | Loyalty Bookstore (Petworth Location) with Susie Dumond

2/28 Minneapolis | Tropes & Trifles with Jenna Miller

3/1 St. Louis (HOMETOWN REPRESENT) | The Novel Neighbor with Gabe Montesanti

I cannot wait to see all of your faces in person!

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I have been editing Out in Hollywood/Preposition Her Noun #4 the last few weeks. Editing feels so different from writing, and also somehow not different at the same time, or at least that’s how my brain is handling it.

This was a first draft that was a joy for me, as I’ve written about here. It flowed and I was eager to come back to it every day. Once the book started really going, I didn’t struggle with hitting my wordcount; I almost always knew the scene I wanted to write next (even when my outline was too vague and I cursed Past Amy a little). Still, the downside of a draft like that was that this rapidly moving stream of information lived in me at all times, and I often felt like I was racing to get it down before I lost it.* It makes you feel like a weird hollowed-out person who exists to carry around this fictional world until you can set it down—and setting it down requires getting like 90k+ words into a Word doc while still living your life and doing your dayjob and whatever else is expected of you while instead you just want to blast your book playlist (I’ll share it next year but you can assume it’s like half Taylor Swift and also “Good Luck Babe” plays a key role) and become consumed.

Editing has…perhaps been less of a joy. Though not entirely unpleasant! But I’m not, like, in the daily discovery of building a world** which means there’s less discovery and therefore sometimes is just… I dunno. LESS EXCITING? “I ALREADY KNOW HOW CUTE THIS DOG IS” and not “OMG HOW CUTE IS THIS DOG” to be honest this is not like THE BIGGEST part of the book so I hope I am not overpromising anything but you get the gist.