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E.L. Chen

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E. L. Chen is the author of Summerwood/Winterwood, Sweetside Motel, Slasher Summer, and One of Us Is Already Dead. She lives in Toronto, Canada with her son and many TBR piles. Find more about her at elainechen.com.

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Meal planning for busy writers

Some time ago I read a series of social media posts from an author on how they manage writing while holding down a day job. They said they wrote only on weekends, as their Monday to Friday job left them too tired in the evening to even cook dinner, and they ate takeout on those nights.

Reader, my thrifty Chinese single mom self recoiled. Takeout five nights a week, in this economy??

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	Slasher Summer 3.89 avg rating — 201 ratings — expected publication 2026 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dragon and the Stars (Daw Book Collectors, 1511) by Derwin Mak (Editor), Eric Choi (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Tony Pi 3.32 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sweetside Motel 3.75 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 2026 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Masked Mosaic: Canadian Super Stories by Claude Lalumière (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Camille Alexa (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mark Shainblum (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.94 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond by David Nickle (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Madeline Ashby (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Robert J. Wiersema (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.87 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction by Nalo Hopkinson (Editor), Geoff Ryman (Editor), Jerome Stueart (Contributor) 3.53 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Good Brother 3.74 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Casserole Diplomacy and Other Stories by Diane L. Walton (Editor), Barry Hammond (Editor), Robert Boyczuk (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Summerwood/Winterwood 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One of Us Is Already Dead 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2026 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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