Happy Monday! I hope you have a productive day today! Here’s something to make you smile. Don’t you love this quote? Doesn’t this describe writers just perfectly? We are curious in our ideas of what could and couldn’t happen; flexible in our ability to roll with the creative punches and adjust where necessary, usually […]
Happy Monday! I hope you have a fantastic start to the week! I’m lucky enough to have the day off today, so here’s my (day-off-appropriate) thought on creativity: A day off means excitement, and I’m going to channel that into writing. Here’s my usual checklist: Coffee – VENTI Chocolate – NO LIMITS I Love Lucy […]
First of all, happy Monday! I hope your weekend top notch. I saw this image and it really struck a chord with me. This couldn’t be more true! I used to be very afraid of making a mistake while I was writing, which used to stop me and actually put a stop to my […]
I consider New Year’s Day the day to recover from the year before and start the new year on a high and happy note. What will I be doing January 1? There will be coffee. I’m talking strong Starbucks venti black coffee. There will be chocolate. I’m talking no restrictions on the intake amount. There […]
No, I’m not referring to an app. Real-life notebooks! There are two things I heavily depend on as a writer: notebooks that reflect the essence of what I’m writing, and fun sticky notes or notepads. This Christmas I was so excited to get exactly those two things as gifts! The notebook on top […]
Victorian Christmases are beautiful, full of tradition, and multi-faceted in celebration. In fact, many authors of both books and scripts would love to put a gorgeous Christmas scene into their book. So why isn’t there one in Anatomy of a Darkened Heart? You’ll notice that I used the words “beautiful” and “gorgeous” to describe the way […]
I’m proud and excited to be featured on The Scary Reviews today. I was interviewed by David Spell, a very well read indie reviewer and creator of the site, as part of his brilliant Spotlighting Women in Horror feature. It was fantastic talking to him about the music that inspired Anatomy of a Darkened Heart and other […]
This year has been a very productive writing year for me, and to finish it out, you can read my short story “Piece and Quiet” for FREE in The December Awethology – Dark Volume. It’s a wonderful holiday anthology filled with short dark writings by plenty of fantastic authors, including Rocky Rochford, William Frank Lloyd, Rebecca […]
NaNoWriMo is almost over, and while I had a major setback that meant I needed to restart the whole book, I also feel the book is shaping up to be something much stronger and more intense than I’d originally planned. My publication date has not changed: early 2016, so that’s a big positive. My motivation […]
Very exciting news! A poem of mine called “Desensitization” was recently published in The Andromedae Review‘s premier issue! You can see it here for free. It was put into three columns, but just read one column at a time. “Desensitization” was inspired by a time that I drove past a car on fire that was parked […]