What is This is Being Alive?

It’s a twice weekly postcard from the outpost where I find myself these days: about to publish my second novel; parenting a small child; limited by disability but also finding out that maybe the limitations are forcing me into the life I’ve always wanted but have been too afraid to admit?

“This is being alive” is what I tell myself when things are amazing or challenging or coming at me one curveball after another. The mantra always fits.

Why subscribe?

Because each subscription is a note of encouragement & truly keeps me writing. Also, if you are interested in fiction writing and publishing, I’ll be sharing my experience publishing two YA novels, one of which is coming out in March. Take a peek here.

Who am I?

My author bio covers the big stuff—

Elizabeth Byrne grew up in New Jersey and holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of two novels for young adults, The Grave Keepers, and Book, Beast and Crow, forthcoming in March 2024. She has tasted a glacier in Iceland, worked on the seventeenth floor of the Flatiron Building, and hiked among sheep in the Faroe Islands, but her favorite thing to do is grow flowers in her backyard. Liz lives with her husband and son in Northampton, Massachusetts.

—but it’s also kinda dry. So here’s more!

Liz is a gemini who has been told repeatedly by many different people, “But you don’t seem like a gemini!” She is a former book editor, teacher, and travel coordinator, and is someone who prefers Sunday morning to Saturday night. (That is something that my old roommate reminded me that I told her once when we were like, 23, but it is still true fifteen years later.)

Here is my new book, coming out March 12! It has the cover of my dreams.

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