Elizabeth May's Blog

You know I’m serious about something when your girl is writing blog posts instead of books. I have a limited attention span. This post will take me no less than three cups of coffee to write, but I’m annoyed, so here I am.

In 2022, ChatGPT launched, and was viewed as a little curiosity. It was not uncommon for authors on Twitter (remember Twitter?) to ask the robot very stupid questions and post whatever ludicrous thing it said for laughs. Everyone was emerging from a pandemic hole, desperate for...

Between October 2023 and June 2024, I rewrote all three books of The Falconer series.

I’ve spoken a bit about this on both Instagram and Threads, but I wanted to provide a full accounting in one place.

I started writing The Falconer while working on my PhD at the University of St. Andrews.

I was ill-suited for academia. But my degree allowed me to move to Scotland, and I ended up falling in love with the city of Edinburgh. In a haze of academic burnout, I decided to write...