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Dark Embrace Cover Reveal!
If you think this sounds familiar, you’re not wrong. Angie Sandro is a friend of mine and an all-around amazing writer, and I am honored to help her reveal the gorgeous new cover for the new edition of Dark Paradise, plus the newest addition to the series, Dark Embrace. Dark Embrace Reader favorite Angie Sandro Read more
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How to talk about your novel
Writers have entire worlds swimming around in our heads, and we often have a hard time condensing something so huge into less than 100,000 words. This is why one of the hardest parts of trying to get published is often said to be writing a query letter or a synopsis. Often, we see the grand scale, twisting Read more
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Major Announcement
Let me tell you a story: I got engaged to my husband Boxy when I was in my senior year of high school. We’d been discussing the idea for a while before then– as mild hypotheticals at first, which slowly crystallized into certainty. We went to the jewelry store together to pick out an engagement ring Read more
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What’s wrong with the Super Bowl?
Full disclosure: Tonight I’m writing my blog post from the Phoenix, AZ, International Airport. I’m writing here instead of in an airplane heading home because Super Bowl-induced air traffic caused some delays in my flight here, and I wound up missing the transfer to Indianapolis. There was also rain involved, but mostly I blame the Read more
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Characterization: What shape is your noodle?
Maybe you’ve come across those prompts that have been floating around the internet since 1998 or so: they’re massive lists of things that, supposedly, every writer should know about their character. They start out with some solid information: legal name, nicknames, appearance, where they were born, etc. And then things get specific. Oddly specific. Questions Read more
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Happy New Year!
Traditionally, I’ve done a new year’s resolution post on this day. This year, I’m going to not do that– because isn’t making and breaking traditions what today is about? Instead, I give you the first writing prompt of the new year: Your character finds a genie, and they are given a wish. Just one. But Read more
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