Craft
On writing a character older than yourself
Charlie has been thirty-eight for four books now. I am older than her. I keep notes on what she does not yet know about herself.
Field Notes
Notes from research trips, half-written endings, photographs from the places the books are set, and the occasional unsolicited opinion about craft. New posts roughly once a month, never on a schedule.
Craft
Charlie has been thirty-eight for four books now. I am older than her. I keep notes on what she does not yet know about herself.
April 2026 · 6 min
Research
Three months in the back rooms of the National Museum. Two of those months under non-disclosure. Here is what I am allowed to say.
March 2026 · 9 min
Travel
I returned to the streets where the first book was set. Most of them are still there. None of them are the same.
February 2026 · 12 min
Craft
Eleven thousand words. Three days of arguing with myself. In the end the book was better without it. The chapter, for the curious, is here.
January 2026 · 11 min
Notes
A small inventory of mistakes, only some of them embarrassing, all of them useful.
December 2025 · 7 min
Reading
A small stack from this winter. Two recommendations, one warning, and a confession.
November 2025 · 5 min
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