Jun 26, 2017 | Embolden Your Inner Writer
Not all characters end up as the person they started out to be. I suppose the same could be said of real people too. In the case of Fitz, who you’ll meet in my debut novel, Soul Reaper (more on that later), he started out as an older, surly cop who’d lost his...
May 12, 2017 | Inspiration
A few nights ago I had an interesting experience that shifted my world. Weird, because it was so random, so mundane. A kleenex fell out of the car. That’s it. Okay, that isn’t all of it. The kleenex fell out and, before I could snatch it, blew away. Now...
May 3, 2017 | Freedom, Inspiration, Magic
I was eight when I decided I would have to have a scholarship to go to college. I think I was born with the desire for higher education, but 2nd grade was when I realized Mom and Dad wouldn’t be paying for it. Don’t ask. I probably knew too much as a child....
Apr 18, 2017 | Craft Your Book, The Writing Life
A subtle, almost imperceptible moment—where the course of the main character’s (MC) life changes forever (whether or not she knows it). In my novel, it’s the moment when Heath—yep… the unnamed victim in the opening chapter has a name—decides to take a shortcut...
Apr 11, 2017 | Embolden Your Inner Writer, Inspiration, The Writing Life
It was a box. A plain one. Designed to hold paper and yet it contained everything I’d worked on for the previous two years–Chakra launches, workshops, course developments, some successes and all my failures. Everything broken down into one, tiny box that...
