AuthorMorganRyan

I can finally shout it from the rooftops! A RESISTANCE of WITCHES is available for pre-order, and has a gorgeous, glorious new cover😍 Summer 2025 is the season of the witch... penguinrandomhouse.com/books… @VikingBooks @penguinrandom #debutnovel #coverreveal

Writers, do you ever get visited by a story idea that you love so much but you know isn't meant for you? Like getting someone else's mail. Thank you so much for coming by, you wonderful idea, but I think you were looking for Ali Hazelwood.

The five stages of revising: Denial: "My book is perfect!" Anger: "I hate this stupid book." Bargaining: "I will cut all of these unnecessary commas if I can keep all my unnecessary em-dashes." Depression: "My book is bad and I should feel bad." Acceptance: "My book is perfect!"

When you wake up at 3am and can't get back to sleep, because you know you finally get to write a BEAR FIGHT tomorrow and that's all you can think about. 😬

This is your semi-annual reminder that you're not getting sick, you just need a good humidifier.

A partial list of the unhinged post-it notes on my desk as I'm writing this #wip: -Wolf fight, sleepwalking, THEN bear fight -Weird eclipse shadows for finale! -Does this book need a creepy feast? -Reindeer? -Just a list of names, with an X next to the one's I've *unalived*💀

Oh, the joys of being a writer: Me: Writing a fun adventure historical fantasy about witches, werewolves, and Norse mythology! Also me: Researching the politics, geography and transportation issues of the British Occupation Zone in post WW2 Germany.

Bestie: scooping cheerios out of her minivan by the handful. Me: Hey remember when we used to go out and drink and party all night? Her: Yup! And then we dropped her toddler off at daycare and went to the gym at 7:30 am.😂😂😂

I am convinced that every human has their own real life kryptonite. I have a terrible sense of direction (I literally can and do get turned around in my own neighborhood). I have also stripped every screw I have ever touched. What's your kryptonite?

Me: okay, so the characters will argue, and then they will get on the same page and help each other out, and that will push the plot forward. My character: Goes way too hard, drops the mic, storms out. Me: But...but the plot...

Don't mind me, just constantly comparing my new baby first draft to the polished book I just sold, while conveniently forgetting the months of grueling rewrites, revisions, beta reads, a whole damn R&R, and three rounds of agent notes that first book went through.

Today is a good day to announce to the universe to please not judge me based on my google search history. I'm not a psychopath, I'm just a writer!

I don't know who needs to hear this, but...it's August. That's why your inbox is so quiet. Don't freak out, hugs and kisses!

Listen, all I'm saying is that when I figure out who has been stealing all my roses, they are going to learn a thing or two about why you don't mess with witches or their gardens.

Deleting all my dating apps and meeting someone the old fashioned way (sneaking into occupied France, meeting a reclusive art curator, lying about working for the British museum, getting caught in said lie immediately, and starting a slow burn, enemies to lovers romance)

Me: Let's plot a time-travel book! Also me:

The kids next door are playing some sort of very intense make believe game, and y'all...this is 1000% how future fiction writers get made.

Being a writer is weird. Like sometimes the job is to call up the creative people in your life (today it's my mom) and go, "so I have this idea but I'm stuck, can you talk about time travel with me for like ten minutes?" And that counts as work.