September in NYC, Most Wonderful book parties + giveaways, how to stay chill during a book launch (?!)

Welcome to my September author newsletter, pals!

Greetings from yr friendly neighborhood novelist.

Monthly writing tips, pop culture recs, and secret peeks into the publishing process. Let’s go!

September? I don’t know her!

It was tough to find pics of anything I did this month because all I did was werk-werk-werk. While my wife and kiddo were vacationing in Lake Tahoe, I did a six-day writing sprint, addressing early reader feedback for my new novel-in-progress. I’ve previously written about writing sprints, and this one was pretty similar. I cleared my schedule, set a Slow to Respond OOO message, and dove in. Even though it’s intense and tiring to work solely on a book for days at a time, I actually love it—I’m a productivity monster, for better or worse. Since then, I’ve barely had time to open my Scrivener doc as pub day cometh! The few times I ventured out this month, my wife and I had nosebleed tickets to the U.S. Open, I celebrated my dear friend Caitlin’s birthday, saw Oh Mary! on Broadway, and performed in my monthly Generati…