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Morning! Copy edits just arrived so it’s time to

Morning! Copy edits just arrived so it’s time to stop binging Chinese drama and get back to work.* 😍 But before I do, I wanted to share the latest YEAR OF THE REAPER pics. Pretty aren’t they? ♥️ Happy Friday and so many thank yous to:

@foraging_pages
@allthebookishvibes
@polynesianreader
@morganhagar_books
@my.literary.addiction
@read.with.tearna
@toggle_fow
@lemonyreads

*Speaking of binging C-drama, I just watched fifty-six episodes of ‘Love Like the Galaxy’ and loved every minute of it. Thanks for the rec, @meganbannen! ♥️

One of my favorites. ♥️ Happy #WorldPoetryDay.

One of my favorites. ♥️ Happy #WorldPoetryDay.

My very first book came out nine years ago today.

My very first book came out nine years ago today. 😍 A DEATH-STRUCK YEAR is set in Portland, Oregon during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, and the jacket copy still unsettles after all these years. (It’s below). Thank you to everyone who has picked up a copy over the years. ♥️ And Happy Birthday to you, book. You’ve been a life changer.

A DEATH-STRUCK YEAR
(original working title A BEAUTIFUL AND DEATH-STRUCK YEAR)

The Spanish influenza is devastating the East Coast—but Cleo Berry knows it is a world away from the safety of her home in Portland, Oregon. Then the flu moves into the Pacific Northwest. Schools, churches, and theaters are shut down. The entire city is thrust into survival mode—and into a panic.

Seventeen-year-old Cleo is told to stay put in her quarantined boarding school, but when the Red Cross pleads for volunteers, she cannot ignore the call for help. In the grueling days that follow her headstrong decision, she risks everything for near-strangers. Strangers like Edmund, a handsome medical student. Strangers who could be gone tomorrow. And as the bodies pile up, Cleo can’t help but wonder: when will her own luck run out?

Riveting and well-researched, A Death-Struck Year is based on the real-life pandemic considered the most devastating in recorded world history, and leaves readers asking: what would I do for a neighbor? At what risk to myself?

#portlandoregon #spanishflu

23 years. ♥️

Draft four is in. ♥️ I write without an outlin

Draft four is in. ♥️ I write without an outline, which can be a messy, inefficient, confusing process. (My poor editors). I have thrown out more words than I’ve kept. But it also means my stories surprise me; they take me down roads I had not even considered traveling the day before.

Anyway, I have a few days off. 😊 Any books or movies to recommend? I’m here for them!

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