Postcard From The Dunes—October 2026

by Christopher Mirabile | Oct 4, 2026 | Writing Craft & Technique, Writing Process & Behind the Scenes

Protecting the quiet I’m scaring myself a little bit. I set out to become a novelist, and now I feel like a product manager. A few months ago, . . . [newsletter readers pick up here]. . . The Washashore existed in four forms. In a few weeks, when The Holdfast...

Postcard From The Dunes—September 2026

by Christopher Mirabile | Sep 1, 2026 | Writing Craft & Technique, Writing Process & Behind the Scenes

Three Words Silas Won’t Make A Habit Out OfThe last few days have been spent proofing the first edited cut of the audiobook. Hearing a narrator say lines you wrote is a strange experience; every word that isn’t quite the character’s comes through the...

Postcard From The Dunes—August 2026

by Christopher Mirabile | Aug 15, 2026 | Writing Craft & Technique, Writing Process & Behind the Scenes

It’s too easy to lose track of what you’re actually doing amid the flurry of getting a book out the door. 

You get so focused on cranking the wheel and working through the punch lists—the final tweaks to the electronic files, the mad dash through ARC applications,...

From The AudioBook Recording Trenches

by Christopher Mirabile | Aug 9, 2026 | Writing Craft & Technique, Writing Process & Behind the Scenes

I checked in with the audiobook recording team at John Marshall Media to see how things were going and whether they might have any tidbits I could share on social media. I was very pleased not only to hear that the project was going well, but to receive substantive...

Walking Into Deep Water (Anatomy of a Scene)

by Christopher Mirabile | Jul 29, 2026 | Writing Craft & Technique, Writing Process & Behind the Scenes

I was recently invited to share my thoughts on a passage from The Washashore. It gave me a chance to reflect, so I thought I’d capture some of those reflections here. The passage is a favorite of mine, taken from Chapter 81, in which Wren and Silas take a walk out...