Are you a writer-in-waiting? Perhaps a writer-in-practice, but an unsatisfied one? Do you have a half-draft darkening your drawer? An idea squawking around the back of your mind? A life's worth of memories rotting in the holding bay, awaiting processing? 

Completing a book is a grueling slog. It is probably best you do something else with your precious hours, if you can. If you can't--welcome! You're in company. 

Here at Chamisas I help you get that book out of the drawer, out of your skull, and into the world. Endless self-help articles and videos and podcasts make these same claims. I'm sure you've sampled your fill. These have their merits. Also meritorious: a real, breathing human who can read your work with real human eyes. Someone to attune to the whispers of your imagination, curate inspiring craft readings, and help you see your project anew. In a world glutted with AI-slop and humming with the anonymous despair of suspicious, lonely souls, an encouraging creative relationship is a small miracle.

I am available to work with you at every stage in your writing journey--from

My name is Emily Rose Soreghan, and I love books. I love reading them, I love talking about them, I love recommending them, and I love editing them. Sometimes I don't love writing them, but I do it it anyways because 13/100 times it's the best feeling in the whole world and that's gambling odds, baby. I'm an MFA candidate at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, a lover of Magpies, and a great friend.

I'd love to be a friend to your book-to-be, if you'll let me.