Archive - This Debut Life

IT'S FICTION, I SWEAR

(the disclaimer I didn't know I needed to write)

Jul 4 •

June 2025

Live from New York!

It’s the Post-Pub Blues!

Jun 25 •

Why I Said No to a Two Book Deal

Jun 6 •

May 2025

All My Mistakes

(and what I learned)

May 21 •

How Many Chairs Is the Right Number of Chairs?

(i'm freaking out)

May 9 •

April 2025

The countdown continues

Apr 10 •

March 2025

(and where can I get one?)

Mar 18 •

(the problem with show-don't-tell, part 2)

Mar 5 •

February 2025

Stop Being So Literal!

(show-don’t-tell might not mean what you think)

Feb 26 •

(Finding objectivity through repetition)

Feb 20 •

January 2025

Do You Know Where Your Books Come From?

(Tertulia and Bookshop.org for the win)

Jan 30 •

Unlikeable vs. Insufferable, and how to spot the difference

(it’s the interiority, stupid*)

Jan 14 •

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