Sarah Avery

Twitter was the publishing industry’s public water cooler, the place where readers expected their favorite writers to announce new book releases, the hub of the

[EDIT: As of February 2023, of all the new platforms I tried when Twitter fell apart, I’ve only really kept Mastodon. You can find my

The more I think about how I’m using egregores as a fantasy element in this novel, the more I understand that a really unforgettable fictional

I spent the last two weeks of October resting up, checking off things I wanted to have out of the way, preparing my kids to

I’m going to have to figure out how to explain what an egregore is without bogging the book down in exposition. This means I have

I’m formally changing the frequency of posting for my newsletter and my column on cool finds in the files from weekly to three times per

This is an experiment in pacing for me. Before, I’ve always allowed the plot to unfold in as much in-story time as it needed, open-endedly.

The thing about this book’s process being so different from any I’ve experienced or attempted before is that I can’t tell how fast I’m really

In genre fiction circles, we talk a lot about two broadly-defined writing processes. Are you a plotter or a pantser? There are writers who are

I finally finished reading the four-volume Book of the New Sun series, and it bewildered me so much I’m now trying to figure out its weird not-quite-sequel Urth

I have a real timeline for my new website! The lovely folks at Design for Writers, who have done all my self-pubbed book covers and interiors, have

I’m not sure how I fit so many good writing sessions in around all the family stuff in July. Swim team, the summer show for