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Road Trip

Last week, my dad and I took a road trip to...

Exciting, right?

For those of you who don't know, So Close to You uses elements from a real conspiracy theory called the Montauk Project, which supposedly took - takes? - place in an abandoned military base at the very end of Long Island. The base was called Camp Hero, and has since been turned into a state park. When I first started writing the book, I took a mini-field trip out there to get a sense of how the base feels.

(Creepy, fyi. It feels...

Editing and Contests and Angst! Oh My!

I'm in the midst of insane book editing, but I thought I would at least write a quick post and say hi. So hi! Hope all is well with everyone. I've been kind of MIA lately, both here and in the real world. Speaking of which: dear friends and family, I miss you and hopefully someday will get to see you again. Probably next week, considering that's when my deadline is.

Wow, I sound hella dramatic. Whatever. I am totally immersed in Wes and Lydia angst right now (spoiler alert: there will be angs...

Things that have been distracting me from writing lately

This song:

This couple (DAIR!!! It's a thing!!!):

This couple:

And, um, this couple (So I have a CW addiction. Deal with it.):

This dress, on This Website:

This book (Time travel!!! And I have cover envy):

This vintage blog (photo credit to her!):

And this series on Hairpin:

Yes, yes, yes - too many distractions! But I have to get my act together people, because I recently received my edits for Book 2 and I am officially under deadline again. Social life lockdown in place.

...

Now if...

Flowers! Spring! Le Garden!!!

I loooooooove spring, y'all. It is the best. And spring in NYC is so lovely - it's not so hot that you want to throw yourself in front of a bus yet, it doesn't smell like sweat and urine (a rarity here), and every tree seems to have flowers all over it. J'adore.

Honestly, it's the only time of the year where I think Brooklyn is prettier than Vermont (which is mostly mud and bare trees right now. But don't let it go to your head, New York. VT is about to bust out all the lilacs and then they w...

It's My Birthday and I'll (Not) Blog if I (Don't) Want to.

Sorry for my blog-related disappearance over the past two weeks, but it was my birthday last week and I finally went home to VT for some spring/recovering from Book Two time. It was glorious and relaxing and lovely and everything I needed it to be. What it wasn't was productive. (Unless sitting around on the couch reading romance novels counts, which I'm pretty sure it doesn't.)

Case in point, I kept thinking that I'd take all these amazing pictures of the woods during spring and then post th...

Read This! (The book, not the post. Well, both actually.)

I've decided to start writing a little bit about the books I'm currently reading, as I seriously read like 2-3 books a week. Don't take that as bragging, I get most of them while in line at the grocery store. Which does not mean they're not quality reads. But you know, it's not like I'm breezing through War & Peace every three days. Anyway, the point is I read a lot of books and some of them are so good that I think you should be reading them too.

Let's kick off my little...

DOOOOOOOOOOOOONE.

I'm finished with the draft! Now I can sit back, relax, and...wait for my publishers to send me tons of edits. Yay?

I promise a more coherent post at some point this week, but I did want to share my good news with you, as well as this:

(If it's hard to see, just click on the picture!)

IT'S A COMPLETE BREAKDOWN OF TIME-TRAVELING TIMELINES IN POP CULTURE. As anyone who has ever written (or read about, or watched movies about) time travel knows - it is really f-ing hard to follow. When there's...

The Process

OMG I am so close to being finished I can taste it. Only one more week until I hit the deadline for the second book in the Montauk Project series. And, strangely enough, I'm not freaking out about it.

Don't get me wrong - I will be using every minute of every hour of every day of this week to get this book ready. But I'm definitely in the home stretch, and that's a good feeling. 

I have to say, writing the second book has been such a better experience than writing the first one. I've slowly...

Home Sweet

I grew up in Vermont, in the woods, in a log cabin that my parents built (and keep building, and keep building. This is a never-ending project, folks.). My roommate M came to visit and the first thing she said was, "there's so much wood!" And after I said, "that's what she said," I had to agree with her. A log cabin does not have many painted walls. Mostly just cross beams.

This is the house that Terry and Phil built:

It was a fairly idyllic childhood. Or rather, fairly easy to idealize...

Cute Things

"The Dress Lamp Tree" by Tim Walker:

This show, which should probably come back on the air so that my heart will stop breaking:

Vintage-brooch wedding bouquets (though I doubt I would ever do this):

Unless maybe it looked like this:

DIY's from Oh Happy Day:

This dress (which I kind of, um, bought):

And these shoes (which I also, sort of, might have bought. (Mom, if you're reading this, stop judging me! I'm not bad with money, I just like adorable polka dots.)):

Vargas girl one:

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