Books
A PRACTICE BOOK
Surfacing: Closing Practices for Creative Writers
I’m now shipping copies straight from my little studio to folks in the United States! You can get a copy for yourself or save $10 on a bundle of five copies for your writing group, a retreat, or workshops.
Outside the US? Order at Barnes & Noble, Waterstones, or your local bookstore.
Surfacing is for an underappreciated threshold (especially for neurodivergent writers who don’t love transitions): the moment when you leave the page, close the notebook, exit the screen, or put down the pen. So much attention is paid to getting into the creative act… but there’s so much momentum and feedback to pick up when you make the other side of the process just as curious. The book includes 70 exercises, examples of how to use the practice, and suggestions to start creating your own closing practices.
A POETRY BOOK
Divination with a Human Heart Attached
Get a copy from my publisher, Game Over Books.
“If it’s true, if god is there at all, she kicks us from the inside.” A book where the gods know what it’s like to be lonely, the daughters know the power of expecting more, and every bird is at risk of becoming an omen. The poems are led by Petronilla, the apocryphal daughter of St. Peter, and the trickster magpie, who refuses easy shelter and asks you to do the same.
Especially for people who:
❤️🔥 Are prone to falling down the rabbit hole of hidden or silenced histories.
❤️🔥 Write down their dreams.
❤️🔥 Listen to Florence + the Machine (her book club called Divination "one of the books that got us out of reading slump").
❤️🔥 Recognize themselves in a saint or two—the weirder, the more intense, the more ecstatic the better.
❤️🔥 Sense that the language of “spiritual but not religious” or “lapsed” is supposed to be about them, but it falls short of the full/complicated story.
❤️🔥 Hate making lists like this one because they risk turning your own work into a commodity (but a book needs to find its people somehow).