Hope Is Important, But So Is Curiosity

As always, this newsletter is free — but please pre-order my upcoming novel Lessons in Magic and Disaster. It’s a strange, tender mother-daughter story about a young witch who decides to teach her heartbroken mother how to do magic. There are flashbacks to the mom’s past as a lesbian activist in the 1990s, and a Dark Academia subplot about uncovering the secrets of a mysterious queer book from 1747. Nicola Griffith calls it “a hymn to queer love, joy, and persistence… A book for our times — and ...