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April 8, 2026

When Fiction and Criminal News Entwine into a Figure Eight: Rex Heuermann, Gilgo Beach, and the Architecture of Violence – 4/8/26

The news this month that Rex Heuermann has pleaded guilty in the Gilgo Beach murders lands with a strange, vertiginous resonance for me. As a novelist […]
March 10, 2026

When Words Aren’t Enough: How Art Therapy Helped Me Craft More Resonant Stories

When I first entered art therapy, I was in the throes of editing a middle-grade novel about Lola, a 13-year-old girl navigating the loss of her […]
October 13, 2025

Author Event

Meet Sisters of Gavinville author John Warner Smith at the Louisiana Book Festival on November 1st.
July 13, 2025

Falafel, Pharaohs, and Fiction: My Lifelong Love Affair with Egypt

I am in love. Deeply, madly, crazy in love – with Egypt. It started when I was in high school, probably inspired by the arrival of […]