The ghosts in Love and Other Incurable Ailments Serenity’s twelve-year-old neighbor, Raf, in Love and Other Incurable Ailments, is precocious, dramatic, and a bit infatuated with her. He’s also fond of ghost stories and convinced that the run-down cottage she’s living in is haunted. He offers her a solution: “I know how to exorcise the house if you want. All you need are sage sticks and … [Read more...]
Book Release Day: Love and Other Incurable Ailments is here!
Serenity is officially out in the world! I've spent a lot of time thinking about what it means to release a character into the world. While I was writing Serenity, she belonged to me. I knew why she worried, why she overthought, why she made decisions that might make a perfectly sensible person want to shake her. But once a book is published, the author doesn't get to explain the characters … [Read more...]
The cottage I didn’t know I was building
What readers can teach writers I didn’t consciously intend to make the cottage a symbol or metaphor in my novel. One of the strange gifts of writing fiction: sometimes we build something before we understand what we’re building. We write a sagging porch, a stubborn window, or a slanted kitchen floor into the story, and then an astute reader points out, “You know what this means, right?” I … [Read more...]
What, Why, How with Aaron Tillman: The Magic, the Mystery, and the Human Story
Aaron Tillman's debut novel, Lucy Miles Photogenic Mind, combines literary fiction, mystery, and magical realism—but he never wanted the mystery to overshadow the people at the heart of the story. Read why he chose to leave some questions answered, others unresolved, and let the characters themselves remain the deepest mysteries. What: Currently, the What I’m focused on is my debut novel, … [Read more...]
The calendar doesn’t care about distinctions between grief and joy
What does it mean to celebrate a milestone when someone you love isn't here to join you? My second novel is being released on October 27, 2026. That in itself should not feel emotionally complicated, but it is for me. Is it possible to be excited about something when October is approaching? Does happiness feel different when grief has marked my calendar? September 29, 1979 is my eldest … [Read more...]
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