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Desert Book Is Finally Done!

The “I’m just going to scribble down this idea real quick” of a book that became Desert Book is finished, edited, polished, and off to my agent! This was a fun, albeit sometimes grueling, book to write. I went into it without a clear plan and winged the first half….

WRITER CRAFT WEDNESDAY: Fandom And Writing

I never took a formal, in-school creative writing course. In fact, my only brush with creative writing was my freshman year of high school where the student teacher who had already realized she hated teaching tried desperately to figure out how to fill the last quarter of the year. I…

This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things (Book Piracy Sucks)

Earlier today a reader contacted me to let me know a bunch of my books were listed on a pirate site. Not just any, run-of-the-mill pirate site with viruses and shady business practices. No, I am not so lucky. This pirate site is one that’s apparently being heavily promoted on…

You Are Cordially Invited To Read My Book (and kill my characters)

Dear Reader, As we all know I do love a good experiment. Or maybe I just like pretending the whirlwind of chaos in which I love me life has some form of order when, in reality, I’m making it up as I go along. Either way the friendly readers over…

Story Time (And Then We Go To Arts And Crafts)

I needed a way to save my pins! In January 2020 I found the perfect, most beautiful, most wonderful cloud-shaped ita bag on a Kickstarter and I backed it in a heartbeat. And then COVID hit… factories closed. The production kept getting pushed back and as people got vaccinated and…

Writer Craft Wednesday: WAYS TO SHOW A CHARACTERS PERSONALITY

One thing I run into a lot when editing is a manuscript that has been edited to the point of sterility. The personality and flavor have vanished because the author was too focused on the mechanics of writing the plot. Giving characters lives, likes, and dislikes outside the main plot…

FOR EVERY ACTION (Fleet of Malik 3) FAQ- When’s that getting published?

It has been almost a year since CHANGE OF MOMENTUM debuted and I’m getting a lot of questions about when Fleet of Malik #3 will be available. Here is what I know right now… Is FOR EVERY ACTION written yet? As of March 2021 FOR EVERY ACTION is 1/5th written…

To Valiant Effort And Brave Defeat

I’ve opened up this page to write a note for the blog a dozen times or more over the past few weeks. I have a dozen drafts of catch-up letters, thoughts on a year in quarantine, and random pieces of fluff. Honestly, what I’ve been doing is quietly screaming in…

Welcome To 2021

Hello Lovelies! Congratulations on surviving 2020 and making it to January of 2021! Here’s what’s going on in 2021… – THE DAY BEFORE is getting finished in the next two weeks and I’ll probably schedule more than one chapter a week so you can read it all before the new…

A Short Note About Growing Up

Today I chilled in a hammock that sits between my home library and the LEGO room. I’m 38 and allowed to do these things. The library was originally designed as a sitting room… a place to have guests sit that is kept clean so the rest of the house is…