From a writing perspective, I finished my YA Fantasy, THE UNHINGED, and am 50% through drafting a new book, an Adult Contemporary Fantasy called A HALLOWED WRATH. I haven't been as diligent on my sites b...
I'm super excited to have finished polishing THE UNHINGED, my dark YA Fantasy about a girl who sells secrets on the black market, but unbeknownst to her lives two separate lives. Think Jason Bourne meets Jessica Jo...
Listening to: Florence + The Machine - Ceremonials
Mood: Melancholy
Brace yourself if you're reading. I am going to be vulnerably honest in this post. There are things bouncing around in my head, and I know I'm not alone, but it still feels like I am at times. So here...
I’m just going to come right out and say it. August was a rough month for writing for me. I’m normally very protective of my writing time, but I had so many mandatory commitments that fell in this one month, it ke...
Every so often I get a box in the mail from my mom. The box usually consists of childhood things of mine she found while cleaning someplace or another in her house. Now bear in mind, I haven’t lived at home for...
Over the last six months or so, I set aside my current WIP to do some heavy revisions on another manuscript near and dear to me (aren’t they all, though). The manuscript had a lot of work to be done, almost a se...
This year has been an utter blur. It happened so fast I couldn’t keep up with consistent blog posts. I remember being a kid and thinking it took so long to get to my birthday (in November) and the Holidays, but now it flies b...
Listening to: Florence + The Machine – Ceremonials
Mood: Wistful
Recently, I took a much needed vacation and road tripped Scotland for two weeks with my Hubs, and by the end of my time there Scotland had stolen a piece of my soul. I have traveled quite a bit, experience...
It wasn’t really my aim to start plotting the follow-up to BLOODBIRD this weekend, but I sat down to work on a different project this morning and an idea sparked in my head that needed to get out. I finished a second rou...
I have a lot of ideas. A lot of words in my head aching and clawing and screaming to get out. For me, the hardest part about writing isn’t things like “writer’s block.” No, it’s deciding which of the voices,...
