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Tessa Gratton Newsletter #40
March 23, 2025
A night like this calls for writing. I’m alone for the first time in days, weeks, months, in a 140 year old machiya house in Fushimi neighborhood of Kyoto,...
Tessa Gratton Newsletter #39: The Kiss
February 7, 2025
In 1992 my grandma took me to see the movie “The Last of the Mohicans.” Usually Grandma took me to the opera or ballet because nobody else wanted to go with...
Tessa Gratton Newsletter #38: my heretical prodigy (and 2024)
December 10, 2024
Since this IS December and definitely the last Tessa Gratton newsletter of 2024, I will absolutely get to my year-to-date thoughts and 2025 plans, but first,...
Tessa Gratton Newsletter #37: Under Pressure
November 8, 2024
It’s my birthday today and I started the morning as usual: watching the sunrise with a cup of coffee, a cat in lap, and fanfic on my phone. The only thing I...
Tessa Gratton Newsletter #36: the season of horror
August 26, 2024
This year Natalie and I are going to be in New Orleans for Halloween, and we are going to the Anne Rice Vampire Ball and let me tell you I am counting down...
Tessa Gratton Newsletter #35: hot writer summer
July 18, 2024
It’s the kind of hot that makes me forget what it’s like to be cold. We reach this point in Kansas every summer, usually in June. It took longer this year,...
Tessa Gratton Newsletter #34: A Jedi Love Story
June 11, 2024
I stopped reading Star Wars books around the turn of the new century for several reasons. Mostly it was due to college and graduate school, which afforded me...
Tessa Gratton Newsletter #33: BLOOD & FURY DAY!
May 14, 2024
TODAY IS THE DAY! The sequel and finale to Chaos & Flame is out. If you enjoyed the first book and are eager to find out what happens after that appalling...
Tessa Gratton Newsletter #32: My First Great Book
April 29, 2024
This morning I recorded a podcast about my series the United States of Asgard, with a long-time reader who’s been a fan of valkyrie in general and my The...
Tessa Gratton Newsletter #31: Defy the Storm
March 5, 2024
It's launch day, so I did some gardening. This time of year, that mostly means pulling wild garlic (my nemesis) out of any garden beds and glaring meanly at...
Tessa Gratton Newsletter #30: Live from a New Interface
February 20, 2024
Hello!!! We made it. At least, I did. Ha ha. I've been dreading transitioning my newsletter ever since the powers-that-be emailed that I had no choice. They...