Life & Us
The Night I Realized We Were All Home, but Not Really Together
Everyone was home. Everyone was somewhere else. What I noticed that night, and what I'm trying now.
4 min read
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Stories about books.
And everything that happens around them.
Parenthood, relationships, reading, family, growing up, and the books that sometimes help us understand all of it.
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Parents & Children
The Reading Rule I've Decided Not to Make
Twenty minutes before screens sounds responsible. It can also teach a child to watch the clock instead of the page.
2 min read
Parents & Children
How to Start a Book Club With Kids Who Don't Think They Like Reading
A book club doesn't need a curriculum or six children who already love reading. One child, one adult and one book is enough. This is the small version, and how to keep it going when it stalls.
2 min read
Parents & Children
My Daughter Is Five and a Half. She Hasn't Read My Books.
I write books for young adults. My daughter is five and a half and hasn't read a page of them. On reading before reading, the one trick I trust, and why I'm happy to wait.
2 min read
Parents & Children
Reading with children is rarely only about books.
Parents & Children
What They're Reading at 2 A.M.
Teenagers haven't stopped reading at night. The room they do it in has changed.
2 min read
Reading Life
Our odd, changing, lifelong relationship with reading itself.
Reading Life
I Took the Stars Off ALMA
Every book I recommended had five of them. That was the problem.
3 min read
Books & Reviews
Reviews with a point of view: what a book understands about people, and what didn't work.
Books & Reviews
Funny Story by Emily Henry: Whose Story Was It, Really?
A real review, not a press release dressed up as an opinion.
From The Keeper Chronicles
Notes from the author's own series: Solmerith, the books, and what's coming next.
The Keeper Chronicles
The Ten Words I Buried in Book Two That Nobody's Asked About Yet
Buried in the oldest layer of a Guardian's mind, meant for someone who hasn't arrived. I wrote them two years ago and I still think about them more than almost anything else in these books.
5 min read
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The Keeper Chronicles
Inside the Shadow Choice Universe: Every Symbol, Every Title, Every Secret I Can Tell You
Two books, eight symbols, a cast whose titles change between volumes, and nine last words I won't spoil. Everything I'd want a new reader to know before opening Shadow Choice.
3 min read · 29 July 2026