What This Is

This is - as every newsletter I’ve ever written since the end of the blogging era has been - an aspirational space. I intend to:

send out a newsletter once every two weeks
write about, in no particular order:
—my upcoming novel, Beings, which is about alienation, archives, queerness, and the first alien abductees, and which you can pre-order here via Bookshop or anywhere books are sold. Look how pretty the cover is:
Coming September 23, 2025 from Bloomsbury <3
—my freelance writing work, which is largely book criticism
—my recent obsessions (old science fiction magazines, queer history, close readings of rhetoric I find weird and iffy, whatever show I happen to be watching...)
—books I’m reading and enjoying but can’t write about professionally (and, potentially, the political allegories I keep finding [making up?] in my kid’s children’s books)
—be interesting enough to keep you around

So, uh, here’s hoping?

Thank you for being here! If there’s anything in particular you’re interested in seeing me write about, let me know - I’m one of those people who never stopped being a good student and so I do well when given assignments.

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