If you follow me on social media, then you already know that I'm releasing a new book this year, entitled When You're Dead and Gone. I've also spoken about the fact that this book centers around grief and addiction recovery. I wanted to take the opportunity of my blog to give you all a more long-form explanation of this story, which will count as the first adult book that I have published. The idea for this book was initially far more frivolous than the book ended up being.

Like any creator, I am, at times, filled with crippling self-doubt. Though I certainly write for myself and what I want to read, we all...

TW: Sexual assault, mental illness, etc It's been four months since I wrote a blog post, but in my defense, I've had a lot going on. At...

I'm in an era in my life in which I am waiting. In many ways, I almost feel like my teenage self. I've read countless notebooks and "on...

A lot of people have an idea of what an author event looks like based upon experience with the most popular authors. They envision a...

Apparently, I have a lot of opinions today. My coworker and I discuss a topic I have sooooo very many thoughts on: kids are people. That...

I started my Patreon at the height of my Tiktok usage, and the platform was mostly for queer book recs and a discord channel. Tiktok used...

I spent most of my life disliking my last name. "Scarlett" always felt right, but "Barnhill" never did. Before I realized I was queer, I...

When I wrote Train Track Princes, I had no idea I was creating the beginning of an extended universe with characters crawling all over....

If you're familiar with me as a human, you know how many playlists I make. If you've known me a while, you'll know that used to be mix...

Yesterday, my girlfriend Rochelle and I were discussing the nature of writing blogs, and how self-focused they tended to be, a...

The year is 2020, and in the copious free time I've found myself to have in the wake of losing two jobs (one guess why), I begin going...

This is what I write in my social media bios: "I write books for bad kids." But what do I mean? I think the idea that people have when...

Since I started writing This Dissonant Princess, the dearth between the way that female protags are treated and the way that male protags...

I probably should have made one eight thousand years ago, but better late than never. Three books published before I make a website isn't...