Journal

Notes from the desk.

A few times a season — essays on history, the craft of writing, and the slow ceremonies of a writing life.

March 2026

Finding the Scent of a Story

How a week walking the lavender fields of Grasse rewrote the opening of a novel that had stalled for nine months.

November 2025

Unearthed letters from the women of the Air Transport Auxiliary — and the chapter they refused to let me cut.

August 2025

The small habits that sustain a thousand words a day, even in the dark heart of winter.