On the Quiet First Book

And a slightly louder second one

My first full-length book came out right around the time I gave birth to my first child. I knew some writers (mostly men) who had traveled across the country promoting their books, sleeping on couches in multiple states. As a new mother, I scoffed at this idea. In the mid-2010s, when both my book and baby came out, this implausible image of itinerant wr…