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Draft to FinalSometimes stories just arrive. I imagine a scene – a teen’s bedroom, two best friends – and I begin fleshing out the details. Are these two popular? No. Why not? They’re atypical. … read more

The TriggerMy process for writing stories consists of a last-minute dash to a deadline, and a timely set of triggers.The first trigger was my intermittent social anxiety meeting COVID. Unlike its us … read more

Writing JavanJavan began her life some years ago as a character in a YA novel I was writing called The Messenger Bird. In that story a girl called Tamar is grieving her brother when she sees a youn … read more

On Writing the Concept of Time TravelIn my Crossed Spaces short story ‘The Clockmaker and the Time Machine’, the idea for the characters came to me in a dream—three siblings in hiding from the gover … read more

Girl TalkWhen a sarcastic, non-conformist, ex-digital security engineer, with a chip on both shoulders is forcibly relocated from Australia to dystopian Houston, Texas, because of a system technical … read more