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I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Eden Boudreau on the Dear Lonely Writer podcast. The time really flew by as we talked about writing journeys, character-driven fiction, identity and belonging, small presses, and connecting with your people. You can listen to my episode here, and after you’re done I highly recommend listening to other episodes – Dear Lonely Writer is an interesting and engaging podcast for writers and readers alike!

I did a Q&A with Susan Sanford Blades in the January edition of her Girls to the Front newsletter! Thank you, Susan. It was fun to talk about the timeline of writing The Quiet is Loud, worldbuilding, its themes, and of course – its food.⁠ I didn’t consciously draw on those childhood examples when developing the special powers, but to me it seemed realistic that not every person with abilities could successfully wield them in

I’m honoured that The Quiet is Loud was recently reviewed by Erin Della Mattia for Prairie Fire. An excerpt: The result is a complex and ambitious novel about how we construct our identities when we feel like outsiders, whether that be as a person with exceptional capabilities, a child of immigrants, or a mixed-race person caught between multiple cultures. You can read the full review here! Thank you Prairie Fire and Erin for your thoughts,

I’m excited to moderate an AugurCon panel: Worldbuilding the Real World: Creating the Fictional Here, featuring Kim Fu, Natalie Zina Walschots, and Maria Dong, discussing worldbuilding in our own reality. Worldbuilding is one of my absolute favourite things about writing, and I’m eager to hear how these talented writers approach it in their own work. Learn more here, and check out AugurCon here! (I’m looking forward to AugurCon and its back-to-back amazing panels and events.)