You got knocked down, or "Dear Brown Kids"

Dear Brown Kids, Hey. I’m a brown kid too. Or I was. I grew up eventually. God, this sucks, doesn’t it? It’s AAAA and GRR and WHY  when you see something bad happen to a kid who looks like you, like what happened to Ahmed in Texas. (story here) It’s even worse when...

Full Playlist for An Ember in the Ashes: Helene

  Last week, I put up the playlists for Elias Veturius and Laia. As I said then, without music, I could never have written the book. And without playlists, I could never have accessed my characters’ psyches. The full playlist (more than 200 songs) has been...

Full Playlist for An Ember in the Ashes: Laia

  Yesterday, I put up the full playlist for Elias Veturius, one of the characters from An Ember in the Ashes. As I said then, without music, I could never have written the book. And without playlists, I could never have accessed Laia or Elias’s psyches. For the...