The Journal

The old woman had only one rule. "Never let the last candle burn out."

Today I held The Bloody Kiss in my hands for the very first time. This is real.

The hardest thing about writing an immortal character is not the centuries of backstory. It is the weight of having loved people who did not survive.

I have been sitting on this news for longer than I care to admit. Today, I can finally say it out loud: Book One of The Crimson Chronicles will be released in June 2026.

People ask me all the time how I categorize what I write. The honest answer is that I do not think the categories matter as much as the feeling — and the feeling I am always chasing is the one where you are not entirely sure if you are safe.

Every writer is a library of everything they have ever read. Here are the books that built the particular library I carry around.

The first line of a book is a promise. Not just to the reader — to the story itself. It says: this is the kind of thing we are doing here. This is the register. This is the world.