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Two Friends, One Dog, and a Very Unusual Week is a book I wrote for the kid I once was—the rule follower, the worrier, the one who wanted everyone to stay careful and safe.
In every piece of art or writing, I’ve found a new truth layered in shadow, or dispelled old bitterness in an unexpected turn of phrase, or tugged an answer from a tangle of threads.
I don’t think I would have ever had the confidence to write a queer and apple-shaped and anxious and chronically ill tween detective if it weren’t for those three misfits from the Nancy Drew mysteries.
Queer representation is important for a whole host of reasons, and as a queer writer myself I wanted to put people like me at the forefront of the story.
Author S. A. Patrick speculates on the future of AI-written novels. "Whatever an AI creates, the human experience of reading will still be the final destination - the entire point of it, the arbiter of its success."
With all our diverse talents, we can protect this tight-knit community of magnificent, playful, and resilient whales—and the other incredible species and ecosystems on our planet.
Sometimes the right idea takes time, and arrives from the darkest of places.
To me, this is one of the best parts of writing and reading stories—getting a chance to visit some wonderful places on earth, even (maybe especially?) if it is from the comfort of my own snuggly bed.
Grief is weird. It’s hard. It’s a process.
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