I'm thrilled to announce that my novel THE QUIET IS LOUD will be published by Invisible Publishing in Fall 2021! I've been an Invisible Publishing fangirl for years, and I'm beyond excited to work with their team. I know my book will be in the best hands and I can't…
Will spend the cooler months watching all the movies I should have watched by now. I'm happy to have finally watched the original Dawn of the Dead. Intensely moody and atmospheric, and strangely nostalgic even though this came out two years before I was born. I'm probably not supposed to…
It's almost NaNoWriMo time, and if you're a writer you may be considering trying it out this year. And if you're not, maybe you should, because it's pretty cool! I've finished National Novel Writing Month twice, and I thought I would share some tips and things that helped me have…
When I think about some of the memorable parts of my years writing online, I'm usually most nostalgic for the earliest years: 1997-2001-ish. But recently, I fell into a different sort of nostalgia spiral. I forget how it even started, but I found myself missing the way blogging was just…
Ruth Goodman is one of my favourite historians. I’ve watched several of her shows and have seen her as a guest on other history programs, and am always impressed by how she tries to live as period-authentic as she can during a project. I don’t have that much commitment to anything!
I’ve recently finished her book How to be a Victorian, which I was very excited about. If you’ve read this blog before you’ll know that my favourite part of history are the smaller, everyday moments of regular people – and that’s kind of Ruth’s whole thing. This quote from the book is a prime example of why I love her – when talking about dry rubbing instead of washing, she writes:
