Apr 2026
On hope
What I learned from the worst week.
There’s a kind of week that scrapes you down to the studs. Here’s what was still standing when mine ended.
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letters
Short notes from a writer’s desk.
Essays on hope, writing, the books I’m working on, and the days I’d rather forget.
Mar 2026
On writing
Why I write thrillers about hope.
It would be easier to write something gentler. But the people I love read thrillers, and they need hope too.
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Feb 2026
Behind the books
The chapter I rewrote eleven times.
Chapter seventeen broke me. It also taught me what the book is actually about.
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Jan 2026
Honest things
A note for the day you can’t get up.
Not advice. Just a few words from someone who’s been there longer than she’d like.
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letters from madison