Vairily: September Edition
September 2026 Dear , "I'm not really a horror reader, but I'm going to give this a try." Rarely has a phrase so delighted me. You could exchange "horror"...
Vairily: August Edition
August 2026 Dear , Consider the witch. Witches existed in culture and myth long before America was colonized, long before the Salem Witch Trials began. In...
Vairily: July Edition
July 2026 Dear , I really thought I lost the magic. The Devil Knows Her Name comes out in just over a month, my second book under contract is with my editor,...
Vairily: June Edition
June 2026 Dear , I went for my annual bloodwork this month, and my doctor told me I needed to get more iron in my diet. “Sorry,” I told her, “but I don’t see...
The Fawn ARC winner is...
Thank you so much to everyone who entered to win a copy of the UK proof of Fawn! I wish I had more to give away, but alas, I have only the one. I also didn’t...
Vairily: May Edition
May 2026 Dear , I saw Florence and the Machine at the end of last month, and from beginning to end, the experience was wholly magical. First was the fact...
Vairily: April Edition
April 2026 Dear , This winter, I began feeding the birds. If the memes are to be believed, I’ve entered the final stage of millennial grandma hobbies right...
Vairily: March Edition
March 2026 Dear , In like a lion, out like a lamb, they used to say of March. The reality of that has always been hit or miss here in Western New York —...
Vairily: February Edition
The goddess of fire and poetry
Vairily: January Edition
January 2026 Dear , “I wish it need not have happened in my time,” Frodo said. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that...