Five years ago today, on Jan. 19, 2021, Last Night at the Telegraph Club was first published. It has had such an incredible journey over the last five years!

I'm writing this post sitting in my orange armchair in my attic, under a blue blanket, on the afternoon of Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2025. I've just had a  cup of Ti Kuan Yin tea, after returning from a chilly walk with Leia in the tiny patch of woods in our neighborhood.

Last week, PEN America released its fourth annual report on the state of book banning and censorship in America, and I learned that Last Night at the Telegraph Club was the fourth most banned book in schools during the 2024-25 school year.

I recently learned that my novel Last Night at the Telegraph Club, along with nine other books, has been challenged at the state level in South Carolina.