January 21, 2020
The timing couldn’t have been worse. Ten days before Christmas, and smack dab in the middle of publishing one novel and revising its sequel, I was asked to write another book. This one couldn’t be more different than the YA historical novels I’ve been working on the last few years. Curtis Roberts, recently released from […]
Read More →November 26, 2019
I have so many things to be thankful for this year, but one of the biggest, and definitely the most recent, is this: I HAVE A PUBLISHER!! My historical fiction YA (young adult) novel will make her entrance into the world in Fall 2020. My baby will be one of only four books published next […]
Read More →August 22, 2019
I want to tell you about the fantastic book I just read. Leslie Verner had me at her opening metaphor: a rootless tumbleweed. A self-described “goer,” Verner knows what it’s like to not only be a stranger in a strange land, but to also feel like a misfit back home as she struggles to learn […]
Read More →June 19, 2019
Some times I wonder why I do it. Every time I make progress climbing uphill, I find out the mountain is higher than I thought. And the ball I push starts rolling backward. Have you ever felt that way? For every step forward, you take just as many backward. My chosen profession, writing, takes a […]
Read More →May 16, 2019
When you work hard for something, you want to see results. You want your effort to be worth it. You don’t want to have toiled in vain. That’s just human nature. One of my proudest moments happened three years ago, when I received my master’s degree in writing. It wasn’t just the culmination of more […]
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