A library of stories, notes + prompts for a more creative life, from an internationally bestselling author who was too scared to write for years.
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Come behind the scenes of my new novel! The Joy Rise is back!
Hello dear Joy Risers,
I made a three minute video to celebrate with you in person: we’re back!
The Joy Rise is out of hibernation, so am I (more on that below), and it’s a new dawn and day for our space here.
My warmest welcome back,...
Maggie Byrd + I are going on tour! Come join us!
Hello dear Joy Risers,
For the first time in four years, I’m going on Australian tour with a new novel! And I want you to be the first to know about it.
Tickets are now live for my 2026 Australian Book Tour for The World Beneath Her F...
Are stories magnetic? First look at the cover of my new novel!
Hello dear Joy Risers,
Over the last ten years of writing full time, I have fallen more and more in love with this question:
Are stories magnetic?
By magnetic, I mean the strange way that things from the imagined worlds of our art some...
My third novel is written – and here is the blurb!
Hello dear Joy Risers,
MY NEW NOVEL IS WRITTEN!
(Please bear with me, the sheer miracle of this moment warrants an outlandish use of caps lock and exclamation marks.)
And below, for the first time, I’m sharing the official blurb!...
A Brontë Fix: Holly on Haworth, Writing and Keeper the Dog
Hello Joy Risers,
Alice here again, popping by to share some more thoughts with you before Holly returns and regular Joy Rise programming resumes shortly. I think every human with a working internet connection will be aware that this weeke...
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I'm the author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, adapted as a Prime Video series starring Sigourney Weaver. My new novel, The World Beneath Her Feet, comes in September! The Joy Rise is where I write about creativity, courage and connection.
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