Annie is a novelist, blogger, nationally award-winning poet, and two-time Bram Stoker Award-nominated short story author. Her debut collection, You Have to Let them Bleed, and her debut novella, The Extra, are both set for publication in 2025.
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Category Archives: My Process
Searching for Pineapples
Originally posted on February 10, 2010 at 2:41 PM As my regulars know, I’m in the tedious process of extending the word count of my novel, St. George’s Eve. Adding words, phrases, and sentences here and there on every page … Continue reading
A Room of One’s Own
Originally posted on November 19, 2009 at 5:48 PM Virginia Woolf wrote a famous essay called “A Room of One’s Own,” in which she argues that women can be as exceptional as men in the writing of fiction if the … Continue reading
Being Seduced
Originally posted on November 9, 2009 at 2:26 PM Like the last blog, sometimes I have to go all out to lure the muse out of her hiding places. But sometimes, she approaches me with the sort of intolerant determinedness … Continue reading
