The Germans got it right with their word for wanderlust. Fernweh, or farsickness, is the perfect description for the longing I’ve held within myself for as long as I can remember. I get super swoony over the wonderment brought on by thoughts of heading off to other places. It’s where I go when I read,…
It’s true, the Mona Lisa has a twin who lives in Spain. The Prado in Madrid has been home to what many considered a knock-off for years. Until it came down for restoration a few years ago, no one even knew that there was scenery behind a layer of black paint. Now, it turns out…
I’ve spent the last few days scouting novel locations and building out the beats for a larger project about the Sibylline. One of the big holes was an ancient, mystical location in Ukraine. Scouting story locations is one of the most fun parts of writing. It inevitably leads me down rabbit hole after rabbit hole…
Put yourself out there. That’s what they tell you. The other morning I flopped down onto the bed, slightly weepy, and declared myself exhausted by the epic level of work I’ve done to get my fiction writing published. I’ve been querying the novel I just finished—Geist—hard for the last six weeks. This is the rejection…