Jan 9, 2018 | Embolden Your Inner Writer, Inspiration
“I’ve always wanted to go to Comic-Con,” I tweeted to her. She was a published author—with a THREE book deal. And someone I really looked up to. “But I’m worried that I’m not geek enough to fit in.” Didn’t matter that I loved cosplay, video games, Dungeons + Dragons,...
Jan 2, 2018 | Embolden Your Inner Writer, Inspiration, The Writing Life
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! (I wish I was tech savvy enough to program a really cool virtual glitter cannon to fire when arrive here, but since I’m not, how about we just pretend?) *fires 18 glitter cannons* Welcome to the new year! You’ve been on my mind a lot over the past...
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...
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...