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Why I Vote
Partnering with HeadCount, a non-partisan voter participation organization, Penguin Random House has started an initiative encouraging people to register to vote, called: And in honor of that, I’m here to tell you…drumroll…WHY I VOTE! (You’re surprised, right? I’m sure you are.) So, why do I? Well, because OF COURSE I DO! Except, it’s more complex […]
Hitting the Road!
Posted on September 23, 2018 Leave a Comment
Hello lovelies, I have news! In the next month, I’m hitting the road! Through October, I’ll be making stops in Tacoma, Minneapolis, and Denver to chat with indie booksellers about Immoral Code. Are you an indie bookseller? Fellow author? General book fan? If so and you’ll be at any of the conferences below, come say hi!
A Little Help From My Friends
Posted on September 10, 2018 Leave a Comment
**warning: sentimental ramblings coming your way in 3…2…1…** Writing is a solitary process. We writers (hunched over desks, faces lit by the bluish glow of our computer screens, mumbling to ourselves about coffeeses and deadlineses and preciouses… Oh wait, that’s Gollum. Anyway…) spend hours working alone, wadded up tight inside our imaginations with the characters […]
With A Grain of Salt
Posted on July 28, 2017 Leave a Comment
A couple months ago I did one of those “One like = One…” threads for writing advice on The Twitters, and as I am now making a concerted effort to add actual content to this here site, I thought, hey! Why not write a post about that? So, here goes… 0.) Take all writing (all […]
Emerging from the Rewrite Cave
Posted on January 22, 2016 7 Comments
Hello from outside the Rewrite Cave! Or maybe I should call it a tunnel as there was an entrance, a very long (as in, eight-plus months long) middle, an exit, and even the metaphorical light at the end, at first a pinprick and then daylight, searing the near-translucent skin of my hermitage. In either case, […]
Read. Read everything.
Posted on May 11, 2015 Leave a Comment
One of my pet peeves as a bookseller and a writer is the “I don’t-” reader. Readers who won’t read YA. Readers who won’t read sci-fi. Readers who won’t read manga or classics or poetry, mysteries or contemporary or women’s lit. Or the most cringeworthy…readers who won’t read certain authors based on their gender or […]
Hello world!
Posted on April 29, 2015 1 Comment
So, here I am! A little late to the party, I know, but for a social-networking-shy introvert this feels fairly on-time to me. My name is Lillian, Lilly for short (As evidenced by the title of this blog “Lilly Writes Things”, which makes me roll my eyes a little, but hey, it’s honest, right? And […]
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