Hey everyone, First, some interesting statistics that I read online: Queen’s Gambit, the show that’s been a runaway success for Netflix, debuted on the platform in the last week of October and has been watched by more than 62 million households. Predictably, following the success of the show, inquiries for chess sets were up 250% […]

Hey everyone, You know I like lists, right? This one, with the most important lessons I’ve learned while finishing 13 books, has been a long time in the making. Here goes.  “Here’s the thing: the book that will most change your life is the book you write. The act of writing things down, of justifying […]

Hey everyone, I have been in deadline hell this week and I don’t generally mind that when it’s my own shoddy organizational skills that have led to it, but this time I was going along great and count ‘em, three sources vanished at the last minute. Between chasing them and making sure my editors had […]

Hey everyone, I’m not quite sure when and at what point that shift from “I also write books” to “I’m an author” happened but I’m pretty sure it coincided with the moment when I realized that I could write not just that one novel, but two, three, ten, twenty—and indeed, would. I’ve written almost a […]