reading renaissance
reading is really tricky as an author. on one hand, you're supposed to be reading recent books in your genre to keep up with the ~market~. on the other hand,...
new year, new ̶ ̶m̶e̶ ̶b̶o̶o̶k̶ birds
I feel like I had a topic in mind for my monthly intro-to-newsletter thoughts. in true ADHD fashion, I've forgotten it. but this month's issue is packed full...
new book deal!
hey hi hello! I fully did not expect to be able to announce this until, like, the new year, let alone in this newsletter, BUT IT TURNS OUT I CAN SO LET'S...
happy six months to Edna!
hey, folks! if you've been a subscriber for a while, you may notice that my newsletter looks different today. this is because I transitioned from Substack...
bzz bzz
my brain is full of bees lately (even more so than usual), because hormones suck and I want it to be autumn outside, but it isn’t quite. I haven’t been...
look for the light
thanks to the Twitter rebrand, the announcement that it’ll be ~powered by AI~, and the frankly befuddling statement that the goal is for it to become a major...
it's getting hot in here
happy july! that’s not something I say often, both for personal reasons and because the july weather usually does me in, but this one has been better than...
hometown glory
extremely homophobic how utterly exhausted I’ve been all pride. June is nearly over, but I haven’t posted about my queer characters or my own queerness or...
it's about the birds
as of yesterday, Edna has been out in the world for one month. I was hoping to do a newsletter with, like, reflections on my first month as a debut author....
happy (belated) Edna Fisher day to all who celebrate
happy (belated) book birthday to me! I had this newsletter all ready to go for Friday, aaaaaaaaaaaaand then I forgot to schedule it, whoops. so we’re...
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[singing] one month more 🎶
this month, I had my first-ever event as a Real Author™: my uni hosted a session of Power of the Pen, a statewide writing event and competition for young...
all hail the queen of march
hey, folks! it’s the end of February, which for me means two things: it’s silence retreat timeit’s birthday time I’ve been going on an annual silence retreat...
welcome to debut year! everything is fine.
helloooooo! due to the continued fuckery that is Musk Melon's Twitter takeover, I migrated my newsletter from Revue (which has now shut down) to Substack,...
live from the forest, it's e.m. anderson! - 🎵 it's beginning to feel a lot like 🎵 E please stop it's only november
industry news that for once is not shitty, even though mostly the industry is still shitty if you haven't been keeping up on the state of the publishing...
live from the forest, it's e.m. anderson! - The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher: exclusive cover reveal
okay so maybe that's not exactly how the poem goes, but anyway you're not here for a poem, are you. or maybe you are, in which case excuse me mx but you...
live from the forest, it's e.m. anderson! - in which you may perceive me, a bisexual
[me sitting on the curb beside the lavender, coreopsis, and violets in my front corner garden, all of us looking very sunny] let's have a bit of bi!E lore...
live from the forest, it's e.m. anderson! - august is the sunday of summer
anti-monopsony court cases & shitty business decisions, oh my! welp. august has been an awfully long month here in the publishing industry. I won't despair...
live from the forest, it's e.m. anderson! - impasta syndrome
say hi to grandpa it's july, so I have spent most of the month remembering more than usual one of my favorite people who ever existed. here is a painting I...
live from the forest, it's e.m. anderson! - this is the bad place
I know you're scared. I am, too. if you're panicking about all the scotus decisions that dropped last week, you're not alone. you're not overreacting. you're...
live from the forest, it's e.m. anderson!
then THIS happened Double Magister E.M. Anderson ✴ AWAKENINGS out now @elizmanderson#ChosenGrandmaWIP is coming to you from @HansenHousePub in April 2023! I...
