Writing


  • How Long Did It Take?

    “How long did it take you to write that book?” This is something I hear from people often. They ask how long a book took to write, and regardless of what you tell them, there’s usually a nod and an unspoken understanding. What they take away from the answer depends on what they’re really asking.…


  • Writing a Trilogy: The Lessons I Have Learned [#AuthorToolboxBlogHop]

    It’s a new year, a new decade, and here I am starting on book three of my Stolen trilogy, the first series of books I’ve written. As I ease back into the world and the characters that give this series so much life, I realize how very different it has been for me to write…


  • Help An Author Out!

    So you’ll probably see posts go up on a regular basis from authors talking about ways that you can help them out without necessarily having to spend money. There are plenty of tried and true ways to do it, such as requesting that your local library stock copies of your favorite author’s books, or telling…


  • Ten Years of Blogging and the Struggle of Realness

    WordPress sent me a notification recently, one I really hadn’t expected, but apparently I’ve owned this site for ten whole years! That’s just crazy to think about. Looking back over my first post, it took me a while to really get comfortable with what to even blog about. I was struggling to figure out how…


  • New Book Announcement!

    I know, I know, I’ve been dancing around this announcement quite a bit on my Instagram stories. I can’t help it though, it’s not everyday you get to announce that a new book is going to be published! If you’ve been following along, you probably already know that I submitted Book 2 of the Stolen…