What is 'The New Place' about? Oh, many, many things, but let's start with the most important: This book is a love letter to my dog, Russell, who had Cushings and lived for 16 happy years until it was time for him to go play in the big farm in the sky. I miss him, but I'm also so happy for him that the disease was something we were in a position to treat and it didn't slow him down at all. Russ, I miss you hunting butterflies and your eyebrows and your fluffy toe hair and yo

I cannot overstate the degree to which I was never going to write 'The New Place'. This was a stance I was so sure about that the day the nearly-realized idea for the actual novel popped into my head, I almost didn't write it down because the idea of following up a 'fake dating' romance with a 'fake engaged/married' one was simply too silly. Then, I realized that such silliness is exactly why I enjoy writing, so I whipped out the trusty notes app on my phone and proceeded to

What happens after the final kiss in a romance? After everyone says 'I love you' and the last page is turned? For Ned and Abbot at the end of 'The Place Between', it means walking back to Abbot's house and presumably spending the rest of their weekend banging it out. And then? Well, Monday comes and they head back to work. Over on my Patreon, I posted in detail what I think their spring semester will look like, though to be fair, I wrote that back in 2023 when 'The New Plac