Here I am standing in Lake Michigan.
If you’d like a real headshot, let me know. I’ve got one.
As for what I’m up to, I’m querying a romcom-adjacent women’s fiction novel in which a chronic overthinker embraces improv’s rule of saying “yes” to reboot her life. It’s set in Chicago’s improv scene of 2013, right before the iconic iO theater moved to its new location. Curtis Sittenfeld (ROMANTIC COMEDY) meets Bea Setton (BERLIN). Or maybe if Katherine Heiny wrote FRANCES HA as a novel. You’ll laugh, you’ll swallow a lump in your throat, you’ll maybe talk yourself into taking an improv class (!!).
(Update: I’ve created a playlist for this novel? Kind of by accident? Anyway, I’ll probably keep adding to it as I feel moved.)
I’m also working on draft three of a domestic thriller – think BEWARE THE WOMAN meets THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW: a sleep-deprived woman who gives birth during the 2020 lockdowns sees her neighbor doing something extremely suspicious while breastfeeding in the middle of the night… or does she? She investigates while we try to figure out just how badly the hormones and sleep deprivation have addled her.
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