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Ok u know that like. Period drama shirt. The white shirt men are always wearing in period dramas. The Colin Firth jumps into a lake shirt. Are you visualising this in your mind? Ok now imagine: a butch wearing the shirt. And she has tasteful cleavage. Do you see my vision.
If I had a nickel for every time Hamish Linklater tried to save a struggling New England island town only to bring death and destruction, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
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I’m officially in the query trenches with my 90,000 word adult queer horror novel!
During lockdown in 2020, a writer friend and I challenged ourselves to write a novella in three months and I jumped at the chance to finally put an idea I had since 2016 onto the page. We met weekly to review each other's pages and provided great feedback. While he finished his novella, I began to realize the story I wanted to tell was outgrowing the goal I'd set for myself. So, instead of pushing through and trying to make this story something it wasn't, I put it down and focused my efforts on other writing projects.
Flash forward to September 2024 when I was laid off from my job. This market has been incredibly difficult to navigate, as anyone out of work will tell you. I needed something to help keep me structured while I searched, and I found myself thinking about the story I shelved four years ago. Was I wrong? Could it be contained to a novella? Or should I follow my gut and expand the story? By May 2025 I finished my first draft of a novel. By October I'd done two revisions and sent it off to beta readers.
Which brings us to January 2026. I joined a querying workshop run by literary agent Eric Smith to ensure my query packet was in the best place it could be to start this process. I met other wonderful authors hoping to achieve the same thing.
Currently I am seeking representation for my adult historical folk-horror novel. It's about 90,000 words so I was definitely right to listen to my gut. It's kind of a terrifying process. Putting something you've created out into the world always is. I think it's worth it though.
My query journey is just about ready to begin. My Cabin in VT WIP is written, edited, and by tomorrow I'll have all my beta feedback to tighten things up. So, what comes next?
Well, starting next week I'll be attending a three part query letter workshop run by literary agent Eric Smith and I'm equal parts nervous and excited for this whole process to begin. I know I'm in for quite the ride. I've seen plenty of other writers be very transparent about their times in the trenches. So many authors shelve books before they find representation and I know there's a very real possibility that this book will not find me an agent.
I think when you've read your book over and over and over again - whether that be during the writing or editing process or both - you can start to lose a sense of your story's spark. At least, that's what sometimes happens to me. Since handing this novel over to my beta readers, I've taken a step back from it. I started plotting and writing my next novel as well as finishing up some short stories, which I think was for the better.
Now, as I polish my query letter and trudge through my synopsis before session #1, I have a renewed perspective on how this story turned out. I have a fresh love for these characters and the struggles they're dealing with. I can only hope that comes through when I begin laying my writing bare for every agent on my list to see (yes, it's a color coded list just like my project list for 2026).
A lot of putting your writing out there is rejection and I really think rejection is important. It teaches us things about how we handle news we don't like and if we're able to carry on writing anyway. Believe me, I've had more than my fair share of rejections in very competitive lit mag markets. Some have been boiler plate rejections, some have included helpful feedback, some have come with the urging for me to please submit again.
So, I know there's a very real possibility that this book will not find me an agent. But, what if it does? I think that's enough to make me want to jump in head first.
I have to be honest, 2025 sucked. In fact, it's up there with one of the worst years of my life: I lost my job at the end of 2024 and was unable to find any work, medical issues just kept on coming, genocide and propaganda, & of course the US continuing its rapid decent into fascism.
So, I read a lot. 60 books to be exact when my goal for the year was only 20. I read some fun books, I read some important books. I read books I really loved, and books I could have gone without. I read for leisure, and I read for comps. No matter the reason, I'm just happy to be reading.
Moving into 2026 my reading goal for the year will likely be 25 books. Like I said last year, even though I've been able to far exceed the number of books I read with each passing year, I still think it's far more productive for me to slowly increase my goal year by year so as not to frustrate myself if I fall short.
Currently I'm reading Klaus: The Art of the Movie by Ramin Zahed, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo, Tomb Raider Vol. 2 by Dan Jurgens, Adulthood Rites by Octavia E. Butler, and Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. I know, it's a lot all at once, but I'm just really excited for the books I have planned to read this year.
So, without further ado! Here are the books I read each month in 2025. Happy New Year and happy reading!
Audio - * (48 total)
Physical - ^ (7 total)
eBook - " (5 total)
January
Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma*
Midnight Mass: The Art of Horror by Abbie Bernstein^
Lore Olympus: Volume 1 by Rachel Smythe"
The Familia by Leigh Bardugo*
The Hacienda by Isabel Canas*
Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu^
February
None this month
March
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez* (This one was a reread and one I'll likely be rereading every year from now on)
Lore Olympus: Volume 2 by Rachel Smythe"
What I Ate in One Year by Stanley Tucci*
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due*
April
This Wretched Valley by Jenny Kiefer*
The Unmothers by Leslie J. Anderson*
May
Lore Olympus: Volume 3 by Rachel Smythe"
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins*
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin*
Your Uptopia by Bora Chung^
I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid*
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan*
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi*
Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt*
The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo*
June
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins*
Lore Olympus: Volume 4 by Rachel Smythe"
Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang*
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins*
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins*
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins*
July
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor^
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones*
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley*
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab*
The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica*
August
Model Home by Rivers Solomon*
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn^
Wildblood by Lauren Blackwood*
They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran*
The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo*
Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo*
Lore Olympus: Volume 5 by Rachel Smythe"
Katabasis by R.F. Kuang*
September
Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle*
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall*
The Vegetarian by Han Kang*
Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz*
October
The Possession of Alba Diaz by Isabel Canas*
Ghost Station by S.A. Barnes*
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins* (Yeah, I listened to this one twice in one year)
What Stalks the Deep by T. Kingfisher^
A Mirror Mended by Alix E. Harrow*
A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories by Terry Pratchett*
November
Spread Me by Sarah Gailey*
Mate by Ali Hazelwood*
Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson*
The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia*
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and how We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee*
Disco Fries & Scenic Drives: Life in the Garden State released this week from Read Furiously featuring a new short story of mine, “Somewhere In Between”. This anthology is jam packed with NJ based creatives, from fiction to essays to poetry to comics and much more.
If you’d like to read a ghost story about the haunting nature of grief, be sure to order your copy here:
Read Furiously is a family-owned, New Jersey based publisher who believes in the sustainable reading journey.
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Wild to look back at the Hunger Games trilogy now and know that at any given moment there's like a 70% chance that Haymitch is reciting "The Raven" in his head.
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