Rachael Herron  

@RachaelHerron

HUSH LITTLE BABY, (RH Herron) out now from Penguin (Dutton) | FAST-DRAFT YOUR MEMOIR. | NZ/USA | Essays: | she/her

Wellington
Joined July 2008

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  1. 20 hours ago

    Here’s what it’s like to live in Wellington - friend in from out of town, left the house at 6:05 for 6:30 dinner reservations and picked her up on the way, parked in front, got to the restaurant early. It’s the WEIRDEST. It’s a small-town big city. 😍

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  2. Apr 22

    (the final part of revision, where I’m just tweaking tiny things, one last read before I send, is a place where I can lose all sense of time and work forever. it’s the best part of all)

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  3. Apr 22

    8.5 hours of solid revision, and this memoir is DONE. (For now. Off to my agent!) I’m going to go lie on the floor now.

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  4. Apr 22

    Okay, this 18 min video is SO INTERESTING on the Universal S. (Only 9 minutes if you watch it at 2x speed, which is what I watch everything at!)

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  5. Apr 22

    WOW, globally recognized! This is fascinating!

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  9. Apr 22

    (Sorry, I’m revising a memoir and drafting a novel, so my hive mind questions are pretty damn random right now.)

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  10. Apr 22

    Gen-Xers, do you know what image I’m referring to here, or is it just a Rachael memory? I drew the heavy-metal S we were all drawing that year with three vertical lines above and below connected by slashes.

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  11. new zealander is a new gender

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  12. Apr 21

    I’m doing this bc of the realization that I’m allowed to mash up the three book ideas that have been floating around in my brain for 5+ years. 🎉📚🎉📚🎉📚🎉📚🎉📚 magic + FF + island life + starting over + motherhood = RAPTUROUS RACHAEL

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  13. Apr 21

    y’all, I’m throwing out 30k words and everything I thought I knew about this book to write what delights me, and today I’m making decisions and it is SO FUN.

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  14. Apr 21

    Kids in this case would be about 18 and 19, I think. Totally not into a relationship with her. Her husband is cheating on her with her "friend," and she's ready to chuck it all overboard and hook up with the hot handywoman on an island where her life really begins.

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  15. Apr 21

    My only personal view into this world is an amazing one - my sister is stepmom to a wonderful kid, and she and his dad and his mom have always been a united triad (BUT NOT THAT WAY) of support and love. The kid's a great adult now. So I don't know anything but this.

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  16. Apr 21

    Because I want to write a woman who has TRIED with these two boys, tried for such a long time, but they're almost grown, and they're uninteresting kids and don't care about her at all. Could she walk away from dad and boys without the reader hating her?

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  17. Apr 21

    But the real reason I opened twitter was to ask a plot question - how common is it, do you think, for step parent and step kids to be ambivalent about each other?

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  18. Apr 21

    Carrying the baby of the ex-wife who just left her, (BAD TIMING, OKAY?), now someone’s coming after Jillian. Is that person after Jillian? Or the baby? Or both? Out in paperback on May 17, and you can preorder it now!

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  19. Apr 21

    My favorite theme to write about is the mother/daughter relationship, and Hush Little Baby is ALL about that. AND HOW.

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  20. Apr 21
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    Y’all, SIGN UP TO WIN THIS BOOK GOODNESS! I’m in a book giveaway with Drew Barrymore? Okay! (US only, sorry ‘bout that.)

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