Newsletter

Occasional letters from the desk — new work, works in progress, and the odd thought worth sending.

Every so often — never on a schedule, never too often — I send a letter: a new story going out into the world, a novel finding its shape, a small thing I noticed that might become fiction someday. No noise, no marketing avalanche. Just word from the desk to the people who like the work.

What subscribers get first

• New books and stories, announced here before anywhere else;
• The occasional piece of short fiction sent straight to the inbox;
• Glimpses of work in progress and how it's coming together;
• Notes from the writing life — the honest, unglamorous, occasionally funny version.

What it isn't

It isn't a content calendar. There's no weekly slot to fill, no engagement target, no series of increasingly thin updates just to stay in an inbox. If a month passes with nothing to say, nothing gets sent — on the theory that a newsletter that respects your attention earns the right to occasionally ask for it. When a letter does arrive, it's because something actually happened: a book finished, a story placed, a thought worth more than a passing sentence.

The rough shape of an archive

Over time, in the fiction of this site, the letters would form a kind of loose diary of the work — the false start that became North of Ordinary, the year Everything the Tide Returns refused to end, the week the jar of unused Mondays turned into a finished story. That's the idea, anyway: less a marketing list than a running, occasional record of how the books and short fiction actually got made, in something closer to real time than process can offer after the fact.

Until then, wander the books and short fiction, check the FAQ for the most common questions, or say hello via contact.