Thank you to everyone who supported my sale on behalf of reproductive justice organizations. I have donated all the money I’ve made so far and will continue to do so as my payments come in. Continue reading

Hello all, I am putting all of my books on sale for 25% off until August 1 and will be donating my next round of profits from this sale to the following, split evenly: Indigenous Women Rising The Center for Reproductive Rights Planned Parenthood I’ve also made personal donations, and I encourage anyone else who Continue reading

Since I finished The Economy of Blessings trilogy in November, I’ve outlined 3 new books, sat staring blankly at the screen when it came time to actually start writing, and then decided that the ideas were actually garbage. Well, I don’t know what happened, but something clicked in my brain recently and now I have Continue reading

I was recently reminded of how Chicana feminists and authors are returning to the life of La Malinche to consider her subjectivity and complexity beyond the legacy of betrayal that is associated with her name. There is a great deal to be said about the way that colonized women have been villainized for both the Continue reading

I wrote a few more of what I think you could call “alternate dimension” snippets expanding on the epigraph from Chapter 5 of Memory and Curses (the one that flashes through lots of widely varying outcomes for Harlan and Iraluri’s relationship). This includes the one I posted here a bit ago, but it is now Continue reading

(Spoilers for Memory and Curses!) One of the most interesting books I read when I was researching for this series was Unclenching Our Fists: Abusive Men on the Journey to Nonviolence, and it provided me a lot of insight into what the incredibly complex process of trying to no longer be abusive looks like. There Continue reading

My first few months’ worth of proceeds have come in, so I’ve started my regular process of donating them to the organizations listed on my website. Here’s to making it rain NGO-style! (YWCA didn’t send me an email so my bank notification is at the very bottom.) Continue reading

A secret fact about these books is that Iraluri was previously named Filfearie, but I ended up changing it because 1) someone asked me “Oh, is that because she’s FILLED with FEAR?” and I was like “Oh God, oh no, it isn’t!!!! Do people think that???” and 2) I got to the point where I Continue reading

I think my next project (????!!!!) is going to be written in first-person, and I’ve been writing bits and pieces in that perspective just to get used to it. I’ve also been thinking a lot about the stories left to tell with The Economy of Blessings, and a lot of my ideas have to do Continue reading

My full Economy of Blessings playlist is like six hours long and I will not burden you with it in its entirety, but I thought I’d talk about some of my favorite songs that are included in it. Spoilers for the series follow. “Just So” by Agnes Obel “So so and no moreThat’s all to Continue reading