Like with everyone else, 2020 didn't go as planned. In all aspects of my life, this year has been a heavy mixture of banes and blessings. The obvious thing that happened this year was the distribution of life due to COVID-19. Thankfully, my day job allowed me to work remotely, which I found fantastic once […]
2020 is the destroyer of the best of intentions. At the start of November, I had a fantastic plan how to participate in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and win so I would end up with a wonderful start on my next book. HAHAHA. It lasted for a single day. By November 2nd, my plan […]
I just saw a memory on my Facebook timeline when almost nine years ago I went to my first writer's conference. I remember how happy I was, I had written the book, gone through some edits, written a query letter, researched agents, and I knew that I'd have that book out into the world quickly […]
Ack, the acronym fairy has struck. No worries, I know this one NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month and this event happens every November. Each person is challenged to write 50,000 words in a single month and I decided to partake this year. Find more information at NaNoWriMo.org. For me, it comes at the […]
I've had a few people asking me about my amazing book cover for A Single Girl's Guide to Wedding Survival and how it came to be. Well, I reached out to my fellow authors and asked who they recommended, did my own internet search, and cruised book covers I loved and took notes why I […]
I have a confession. I'm a desert rat through and through, which means I have never cooked crab before. Yet it is my sister's birthday and her request for her birthday dinner are the crustaceans. Hello search engine, you're my new best friend. I learned quite a bit in my link jumping like how incredibly […]
The journey to publish A Single Girl's Guide to Wedding Survival was long and twisty. In March 2011 my mother was diagnosed with an aggressive form of Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). She was told that she had 90 days to live. Thus began a crazy regiment to try to keep her alive and the degradation […]
"Resistance is futile" is jokingly our family motto. Hey, if you’re born a Borg and someone starts using your name for a race of unemotional bad guys (yeah, I'm looking at you Star Trek: The Next Generation), you learn to roll with the Sci-Fi stuff for life. Hell, I was even asked to prom with […]
Now that I've sent off my book A Single Girl's Guide to Wedding Survival: A Novel off to the editor, I can finally begin plotting a new story. Hooray! Except I feel like I'm running into invisible walls. My character has a name, a history sketched, main issue to solve, and ideas for a few […]
I'm one of the lucky ones and can work from home during this COVID-19 pandemic. The whole situation is energetically weird. I am grateful my work can be done remotely but I definitely had some ideas about how I would get writing done quietly and easily while being hunkered down at home. Delusion #1: Gain […]
