How The Heck Can I Listen to Music While I Write?

I’ve been so overjoyed by the response to Lessons in Magic and Disaster lately. People are getting ARCs or finding it on NetGalley/Edelweiss and sharing their reactions to my fantasy novel about a complicated mother-daughter relationship. The other day, Kurt Busiek — one of my all-time writing heroes, whose work taught me so much — wrote on Bluesky that it was my best book yet, “hands down.”

Anyway, you can pre-order Lessons anywhere, or get a signed/personalized copy from Green Apple Books. (A...