About the Sardine Report

Hi, I’m Ali. Currently deep in drafting a dark, glamorous thriller set in the world of chartered yachts and high fashion—the kind of book where sex trafficking operates just beneath a gorgeous surface, and where the women caught in its wake are neither fully victims nor fully villains.

This newsletter is what happens alongside the novel: word counts, research rabbit holes, half-formed theories, the occasional breakthrough, the more frequent stuck week.

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Expect: writing updates, reading recommendations (equal parts psychoanalysis and fashion history, don't ask), and whatever else is genuinely on my mind that week.

What you won't get: polish for its own sake, a content calendar, or pretending I have this more figured out than I do.

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