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A WILDERNESS
OF STARS

With a mysterious illness cursing the
land, it’s the stars that hold the key
to the cure.

LONG LIVE THE PUMPKIN QUEEN

Jack and Sally are "truly meant
to be"...or are they?

A HISTORY OF WILD PLACES

A missing author.
The psychic hired to find her.
Nothing is what it seems.

WINTERWOOD

Be careful of the dark, dark wood.

THE WICKED DEEP

Welcome to the cursed town of Sparrow.

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I turn to poetry when the world feels uncertain. 🌿 Mary Oliver has always known the correct order of words to soothe my soul. 🌲

#poetry #poems #maryoliver #seekthesimplicity #livewildbefree #slowliving

TWO MONTHS until THE BEAUTIFUL MADDENING will be o

TWO MONTHS until THE BEAUTIFUL MADDENING will be on bookstore shelves! 🖤 This is a book I once thought I may never finish. It’s a story I was writing when I got my MS diagnosis in 2022. I pushed this book aside to focus on my health, and I wondered if I would ever return to it. Perhaps it would be too difficult to pick up where I left off, to return to something that felt like it belonged to the old me. The old life. Before everything got turned upside down. 💜 But when I finally opened the Word document again, I knew it was a story I needed to finish. I needed to write the ending, the last chapter, so I could make space for the next story. For something new.

This story—Lark’s story—will always be a marker of time for me. ✨ It will be the book that almost never was, but fought its way into the world all the same. 🙂

Lark’s story publishes June 3 with @simonteen. 📖🖤🌷I hope you will find space for it on your bookshelf, and in your heart.

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The slowness of an afternoon spent in a quiet hous

The slowness of an afternoon spent in a quiet house, watching the wind bend the trees outside. 🌲🌿✨ I’ve opened windows & doors, letting in the *almost* spring air. ☀️

This story is a standalone. But it’s not truly a

Lark knows she’s the villain.

Lark knows she’s the villain. 🖤 She knows she’s the one that others should fear. But sometimes. . . monsters fall in love too. 🌿

Some love stories end in happily ever after. Lark’s may end in lies. 🌷🌷🌷

THE BEAUTIFUL MADDENING will be on bookstore shelves June 3, 2025. 📖 Publishing with @simonteen!

🌿 Rest isn’t something you earn. Rest doesn’t need to come after you accomplish or achieve something. Rest is allowed. When you need it. Often our culture reserves rest for later. . . at some unknown day in future. Once you’ve finished every goal, every item on your to do list.

But what if rest comes first. What if rest is the goal. 🩷

Lark only wants one thing, to escape the town of C

Lark only wants one thing, to escape the town of Cutwater, and the curse she was born into. 🖤

The story begins on June 3, 2025. 🌷
THE BEAUTIFUL MADDENING is available for preorder wherever books are sold. 📖

#bookish #booknerd #bookstagram #bookworm #amwriting

This little love story will be out in the wor

💜 This little love story will be out in the world soon. 📖 It’s been almost 3 years since my last book was released, and while I’ve been so excited to finally release another book, it’s also filled with a lot of uncertainty. 🌿 As I’ve said before, this is a gentler, softer story, and I hope it will find its readers. ☺️ I hope it will find a place in your hearts. 💜✨🌷

THE BEAUTIFUL MADDENING is a YA book, publishing with @simonteen on June 3. 🖤

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This book is about love & lies.

This book is about love & lies. 🖤 It’s about trusting the one thing Lark Goode has been taught to fear: her own heart. 🌷

THE BEAUTIFUL MADDENING is my next YA novel, releasing June 3, 2025 with @simonteen. It’s available for pre-order now. 📖🤓

#booknews #bookish #amwriting #thebeautifulmaddening #bookworm

While I’m under the weather, I’m focusi

☕️ While I’m under the weather, I’m focusing on research for my secret story. Gathering details & descriptions that I’ll use once I’m feeling well enough to write the next scene. 🌿 The ending for this story is also getting farther away. I thought I was nearing act three but now it’s looking like act two has a few more scenes that need to be explored. 🍃 I’m following the story wherever it leads. 😉

How are you all feeling this week? 🌿

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