Happy Pride month and reunion & commencement season, friends! I come to you with great news: the ebook of my college reunion romance BUT HOW ARE YOU, REALLY is on sale today (6/7) for just $1.99!!
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She’s here. My debut novel is finally out in the world. I didn’t expect my first book to be a novel, but Charlotte and Reece’s story came to me in a flash on the last day of my college reunion in 2019. Reunions are emotionally heightened settings, fuzzy with nostalgia but fraught with small talk […]
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It feels like everything and nothing happened this year.
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For the second year in a row I hit my goal of reading 100 books, I inform you with great smugness. 35 were romances, 8 were Stephen King novels, and more than one were comics volumes.
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Being the Face of Herpes doesn’t pay well.
Read MoreAll while Ella was busy this year going public and getting famous, I’ve had the immense pleasure of sitting tight behind the scenes and watching. As the now-official editor of her blog, I get to read everything she writes for this site—usually before it publishes, sometimes right after, depending on how big it’s going to […]
Read MoreI’ve been thinking about San Francisco. My friend and I have a pact to get tattoos next May and the only symbol I can imagine marking myself with permanently is the Golden Gate Bridge, a doodle I’ve been sketching for years. The City by the Bay was the first city I ever fell in love […]
Read MoreI’ve been offline. Or as offline as someone who works in social media can be. Somewhere around my site hitting 14k hits in a single day, somewhere around seeing my face appear over and over again on my Twitter feed, somewhere around co-worker #8 coming up to me in the kitchen and saying, “I SAW YOU ON […]
Read MoreThe producers of The Bachelorette made an interesting choice during tonight’s “Men Tell All” episode. Between the awkward reunions and desperate attempts to rebuild reputations, Kaitlyn Bristowe and Chris Harrison had an honest conversation about the tidal waves of harassment this season’s Bachelorette has received online. In a controversial move, Harrison read out several real […]
Read MoreIf this letter seems late, that’s intentional. I wanted to wait until you needed it. Tomorrow you’re moving to Berkeley and you’re going to need a friend. Nowhere is going to feel like home in the same way campus did, but it took college a long time to feel like home in the first place. […]
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Ella Dawson 