Chanelle Loftness - Author Blog

2025

At the beginning of June, I attended The Writer's Hotel in Phippsburg, MA. This was my first trip to Maine. It very much reminded me of home in the PNW (well, in some ways) with all the green and water. It is always nice to get away from the City and its busyness. I was in Elizabeth Hand's group, where I workshopped the first pages of my newest novel and got some great feedback. Naturally, I'm excited to dive back into this horror/thriller and keep it moving! View from the resort room at Sebasco. I also participated in the reading, after chickening out on my assigned night. It happens. It's not that I have stage fright (I do). It's mostly that I hate being perceived, which makes life difficult at times. In all honesty, I probably would have been fine if it were karaoke night. I do love me some karaoke.  Reading from my YA Fantasy (Photo credit: Rachel B. Moore) Also, in exciting news, I've been asked back to The Writer's Hotel 2026 as a TA ! I'm so excit...

Welp, it's been...a bit since my last post! I want to aggressively move forward lately, but I'd also like to stay in bed. So, I'm sitting here trying to write, getting a better image of a ghost of an idea, while also thinking of the places writing still has to take me this year. And how I wish I were there writing now. Under the Volcano seems like a lifetime ago, but wouldn't it be amazing to be in Tepotzlán now, writing on a patio looking out to the Volcano?  Tepoz is one of those magical places, literally.

Picture it. Seattle. 19🤐. Your favorite Saturday Morning Cartoon is Rainbow Brite, and your mother, a great seamstress (seriously - this is not an exaggeration), promises to make you the best Rainbow Brite costume... AND she freaking did!  I still can't get over the wig made of yarn and how poofy the dress was. What a night. I've never had a better costume! This, in fact, became a family costume as my cousin would wear it the following year. I think she might have won a costume prize! All that reminiscing to say, I hope you all are enjoying the magic of this night! 🎃👻

 

I recently took a trip to Seattle, my hometown. It was nice to be back there and to be able to do some of the touristy stuff you don't do at places when you call them home. My friends and I headed down to Pike Place Market, and in one of the cool, creepy, magic, majestic shops, I found this dude or dudette. The moment I believed they could have landed in Seattle all the way from Mississippi, I could not resist. I knew they had to come home with me. I'm still looking for the perfect spot to put them in my home, but boy, what a beauty! 😍