🚀The Dark Age: Peaks and valleys
Hello, friends! Though I've kept up with the newsletters, it feels a little like I'm emerging from a dark age of my own right now. Time after time this year,...
A golden bubble of light
Hello, friends. Something a little different this week. Sickness has descended upon Hill House, and as a result I just haven't had the energy to sit and...
🚀The Dark Age: Dying on television
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What the money is for
Hello, friends! I've just had a wonderful weekend, and I think it was almost entirely accidental that it was so terrific. Maybe that isn't what I mean; maybe...
🚀The Dark Age: Simplify, simplify
Hello, friends! I've said it before: Publishing is hard. Publishing is hard, and bears very little relation to the act of writing. It's messy, too; things...
Sound and fury and hubbub
Hello, friends! Felicia and I have been, like some of you, I think, watching the new season of Only Murders in the Building. We have been delighted by Steve...
🚀The Dark Age: Little pirate ghosts
🚀The Dark Age: Little pirate ghosts Hello, friends! I have no idea what's up with The Dark Age this week, I swear to god I don't. It's out there, in an inbox...
Pressure and movement
Hello, friends! I don't know about you, but I have found these little illustrated newsletters to be quite a lot of fun. I haven't doodled seriously in years,...
🚀The Dark Age: Softie by the sea
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We are all Kenough
Hello, friends! I looked up and suddenly half the year has gone by. This has been a strange one, somehow both the best year and most challenging one I've had...
🚀The Dark Age: Moving in a new direction
Hello, friends! I wish I could say more about The Dark Age, but we are firmly in that quiet period between finishing a draft and learning what the next move...
Just be love
Just be love Hello, friends! Many of you wrote to say you enjoyed the hand-drawn newsletter I sent last time, so here we go again! (I apologize in advance...
🚀The Dark Age: The writer you need to be
👋 Hello, friends! I've been thinking a lot about how challenging writing books can be. How every time I sit down to work on one, I feel like I'm the least...
Egg perfection, among other things
Hello, friends! A little something different this week. I, uh, drew the newsletter. (If you have difficulty reading these, reply and let me know and I'll...
🚀The Dark Age: Squish's favorite author
Good morning, friends! A huge thank you to every one of you who follows along with these Dark Age letters. It means a lot to me that you’re interested in...
The Edge of Sleep is here!
Hi, friends! Today, I'm thrilled to announce, is publication day for The Edge of Sleep! I'm pretty proud of this novel, and it's unlike anything I've been a...
🚀The Dark Age: Half of me is ocean
Hello, friends! Yesterday, while heading home from an unplanned trip to Portland, an old Tom Petty song, “Walls,” came up in rotation. I think it’s from the...
Moving towards better
Well, hello, there. I’ve had a lot on my mind the past few weeks. I mentioned in a previous newsletter that I’ve been in the midst of a sort of season of...
🚀The Dark Age: A finished draft
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A more fun way to be
Hello, friends! I have happily been gorging on books. Don't you just love when that happens? Everything you read is interesting, and before you know it,...