Princess Alethea

Read all of THIEFTESS here! Dearest Squad, I have no idea how to introduce this chapter. So instead, I will give you a completely fun fact about me that I bet you never knew: I have always been fascinated by just how many words and phrases in common vernacular (US and UK specifically, though I’m learning that Korean has a few as well) are nautical in origin. Here are a few: • Above board •…

Read all of THIEFTESS here! Dearest Squad, I got home from my travels up north right before my birthday in January, and thanks to some pretty crushing anxiety and depression about my career (and Piper, and the state of the world in general) it took me over a month to get sleep and food and medicine and exercise and everything else back on a decent schedule. But I rallied my troops—and…

I finished my novel on Wednesday. I had such a hard time this past December – I woke up on Dec 31st at about 3 am in a full-blown anxiety attack. I knew that if I didn’t find a way to change my perspective about some things, I was going to slide right back into the land of “Stress is Going to Kill You.” Knowing that you need to A Thing is the first step. Actually Doing The Thing is a different…

Joan Wilder was always my hero. I was 8 years old when Romancing the Stone released (my family owns movie theatres, remember, so I saw just about everything on the Big Screen).  The day I met Joan Wilder I knew: I was going to be a writer. (You know, if the whole acting thing didn’t pan out.) Once upon a time, whenever I finished a novel, I would make this photo of Joan my profile picture. On…

Dearest Squad, “Le roi est mort, vive le roi!” has always been one of my favorite sayings. I’ve been reading books and speaking other languages for so long that I don’t even remember when I first learned it. “The king is dead, long live the king!” may sound like nonsense, but it refers to TWO different kings. In 1400’s France, it was law that sovereignty did not pass to the new king until the…