Who doesn't love an outfit change? The talented design team at Marysue Rucci Books managed to create not one but two perfect covers for my novel. This layered, classy beauty—with brilliant Dani Shapiro 🔥's lovely blurb—will adorn the paperback edition out this summer, preorderable now.

What a surreal thing it is, to be read!

I am so proud to work at Vanity Fair, and this morning I am so very proud that the magazine, along with ten other Condé Nast publications, is forming a union. washingtonpost.com/media/2022/03/…

What if when I submit my author photo it is just this.

Rachel Patton is going to aggregate the shit out of Bad Art Friend & co., and then she will finally know peace.

A sad thing to realize is that 10 years ago I could sit for six hours straight memorizing ancient greek verbs and now I can't respond to an email without, in the middle, checking slack/twitter/a different email/my phone/that newsletter I'd meant to read/etc

Why participate in The Discourse now when you can just read my novel in ~1.5 years about this very phenomenon!

Thank you to the Wild Bird Fund for sticking this baby sparrow in an incubator after a storm-induced tumble and a likely scary night outside alone in a temporary nest (parents didn’t come by, alas)! He is small but mighty.

Vacillate typically between options 1 and 4.

I’ve had an intense fear of driving my entire life but now I’m sort of glad I waited to learn because today, at the ripe old age of 29, I drove by myself for the first time ever, blasted ‘drivers license,’ and HAVE NEVER FELT SO ALIVE

'You've Got Mail' but it's a psychological thriller about a woman who goes insane trying to get to inbox zero.

I wrote a novel, and I am just over the moon that it found a home with the brilliant editors Marysue Rucci at Simon & Schuster and Anita Chong at McClelland & Stewart! Bouquets of thanks to Michelle Brower and Jen Marshall, who are the very best.