Found family is one of those tropes that can make me cry just thinking about it. There’s something about watching characters build family from scratch – choosing each other, protecting each other, becoming each other’s home – that hits on a...
Music has always been part of how I understand my characters. While writing A Fog of Shadows, certain songs kept playing in my head, perfectly capturing Kateri’s quiet strength and Magnus’s intensity. So I’m sharing the character playlists for Kateri...
Let me tell you about the creatures my brain created while I was asleep, and how one specific moment in a dream made me feel things that changed everything. The Rens weren’t planned. They weren’t researched. They just… showed up in my recurring...
In 28 days, A Fog of Shadows releases into the world. But this story’s journey started seven years ago, with a dream I couldn’t shake. I want to tell you how this book came to be—not because my process is special or unique, but because I think...
Forbidden love is one of fantasy romance’s most enduring tropes. From Romeo and Juliet to modern romantasy, we keep coming back to stories where the couple absolutely shouldn’t be together. But why? What is it about forbidden love that makes it so...
