Melissa Perri Smith is a novelist based in the Washington, D.C. area. Her latest book, Just Us, is available for purchase through her publisher or on Amazon.

Image Description: Just Us by Melissa Perri Smith on a desk with a keyboard, pen, and headphones

If you sit there long enough, you collect enough sentences to make a book. It’s just chipping and chipping away.

— D.B.C. Pierre