In Which I Get Knocked on my Ass
I’m on record as saying that 2025 was, for me personally, a really great year. I released four books and started finally finding my audience. I wrote two complete books. I started working professionally in editing and graphic design, including making all my own book covers, making new covers for many of my older books in the process, as well as covers for friends. I created an author career plan […]
You Will Have to Make Your Own Path
About a year ago a super famous author spoke to my writer group (Apex Writers) during a zoom meeting. This man has sold millions of copies of his books and he’s a household name at least in the SFF world. Now, our group is made up of a lot of different writers at various levels in their careers, to people just starting out to people like me who’ve published 10+ […]
Craft 101 – Satisfying Installments
A while back on Threads (of course) I saw a craft-related comment that went something like this: People are leaving one and two stars reviews on my book because they say the plot wasn’t resolved, but it’s clear this is the first book in a series. Of course, the plot is not resolved! How do I get my readers to be more patient? And, like, bold of you to assume […]
Craft 101 – Writing ‘Filler’ Scenes
A 101 Level Craft question I see all the time! I see a lot of mostly newbie writers asking version of this basic question: How do I write filler scenes, or scenes in which nothing important happens but feel necessary (for some reason) to pad out the word count and not make everything seem rushed? How can I make those scenes interesting? and my sibling in Christ I’m going to […]
Progress Report!
Welp, I had high hopes for starting out this year. I wanted to hit the ground running with The Radiant Tomb (The Circle and the Shadow Book 2) and really make great progress through the book In January. But when the very first workday arrived, I came down with some sort of Respiratory virus, which basically ate a week and a half of my productivity. But there’s the thing: This […]
New Body Manifesto
One thing I need to do in the new year, is to take care of myself better. Specifically, take care of my body. I know this seems like a weird statement coming from me because I’ve written several times about my successful fitness journey over the last year or so, but there are still some things out of balance. And I’m going to be super honest about this with you […]