Where Writers Create &
Readers Escape
As a writer or a reader, immerse yourself in
character-driven stories that reflect what it means to be human.
Services
-
Finish Your Draft Doing Less, Not More
The Simple First Draft: How to Finish a Character-Driven Novel Doing Less, Not More is a counter-intuitive drafting method that shows you how to write a complete, emotionally honest first draft by removing overwhelm, overthinking, and pressure so the work can finally move
-
Book Coaching (single session)
Book Coaching is for authors of literary & upmarket fiction who want quick support in whatever is getting in the way of the story right now. This can look like addressing the story arc, character development and arcs, plot, themes, and the universal statement, “I don’t know where to go next.” You’ll leave with clear next steps to keep going.
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say,
but what we are unable to say.
— Anais Nin
Read My Book
Blue Hour: A Novel
A Barack Obama Summer Reading selection, and one of Vulture’s Best Books of 2023
What is motherhood in the midst of uncertainty, buried trauma, and an unraveling America? What it’s always been—a love song
Our narrator is a gifted photographer, an uncertain wife, an infertile mother, a biracial woman in an unraveling America. As she grapples with a lifetime of ambivalence about motherhood, yet another act of police brutality makes headlines, and this time the victim is Noah, a boy in her photography class. Unmoored by the grief of a recent devastating miscarriage and Noah’s fight for his life, she worries she can no longer chase the hope of having a child, no longer wants to bring a Black body into the world. Yet her husband Asher—contributing white, Jewish genes alongside her Black-Japanese ones for any potential child—is just as desperate to keep trying. Throwing herself into a new documentary on motherhood, and making secret visits to Noah in the hospital, this when she learns she is, impossibly, pregnant. As the future shifts once again, she must decide yet again what she dares hope for the shape of her future to be. Fearless, timely, blazing with voice, Blue Hour is a fragmentary novel with unignorable storytelling power.