From Instagram...

Claire fanart done by the INCREDIBLY talented and kind @lesyablackbird. How cool is this?? I loved this so much I asked if I could commission a larger piece.
#bookstagram #fanart #thelibraryoftheunwritten

I can’t work with level of editorial scrutiny, kids.

Excuse me giant teenbeasts have you seen the wee kittens I adopted a couple months ago? No? Okay you can stay.

I have found it. The perfect face mask for our times.

70+ days in...The little tastes of normal are important. I think the first time we got sushi again I cried. #quarintakeout

Goose plays Animal Crossing with me. I swear I’ve never had such screen obsessed cats.

I call this look Apocolypse Red Riding Hood...

Be the light. #seattle #graffiti #hopepunk

Quarinkitten update: I had a FOR REAL solid day of writing this week, which is better than the previous weeks so I’ll deem that progress. Book 3 draft continues, if slowly. Seattle continues to be locked down, but the catten are settling in nic

About

A.J. (she/they) is a magpie of plots, bad ideas, and spite. She is a queer speculative fiction writer and the author of the acclaimed Hell’s Library fantasy series. Her writing has appeared in Uncanny Magazine and various anthologies, and she's an alumni of Viable Paradise workshop. She's represented by Caitlin McDonald of Donald Maass Literary Agency.

A.J. lives in the deep woods just outside of Portland, OR with her husband, her hound, and her ghosts.

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Publications

Novels

The God of Lost Words, Ace, Fall 2021
The Archive of the Forgotten, Ace, October 2020
The Library of the Unwritten, Ace, October 2019
A Treason of Truths (Whispers #2), Carina Press, October 2018
A Conspiracy of Whispers, Carina Press, January 2018

Short Fiction

Lips of Red, Lips of Black, Skies of Wonder, Skies of Danger: Stories of Airships, Pirates, and Wizards, June 2018
ERROR: KAPPA NOT FOUND, Untethered: A Magic iPhone Anthology, Cantina Publishing 2016

Essays

Side Quests on Dying, Sirens Conference, 2020
Footnotes, Ephemera, and Other Stories from the Margins, Tor.com, 2020
Through Doorways: Portal Fantasy and Queer Escape, Tor.com, 2019
And the Dragon was in the Skin, Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction issue, Uncanny Magazine, 2018

Non-fiction books

Freelance Confidential, Rockable Press, 2011
Web Design Confidential, Rockable Press, 2012