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Hello and welcome to the fourth and final installment of Strong Female Characters: May We Read Them. May We Write Them. May We Be Them. Guess what—I saved the best for last. As I’ve mentioned before, my dad read the The Lord of the Rings books to me at an early age, and I was […]

I’ve gotten a lot of questions recently about what the self-publishing process looks like and, while it is a bit different for each person, I thought I’d take a moment to walk you through what it has been like for me, personally. The first step after making the decision to self-publish is to decide which […]

Hello and welcome to the third installment of Strong Female Characters: May We Read Them. May We Write Them. May We Be Them. Today I will be discussing one of my favorite girls in all of literature—Lucy Pevensie.  I was quite young when I first read the Narnia series, and I fell in love with […]

Hello, and welcome back to Strong Female Characters: May We Read Them. May We Write Them. May We Be Them. In today’s installment I will be discussing Alanna of Trebond. So without further ado… I’m sure it’s no secret that I have been a life-long lover of books. As I’ve mentioned before, The Lord of […]

Lately I’ve been thinking about the kinds of things I would enjoy writing about for the blog (my hypothesis is that if I’m excited about the topics then I’ll post more often) and I decided I’d like to do a series entitled Strong Female Characters: May We Read Them. May We Write Them. May We […]

As I get closer to the (self)publishing date of my first book, I’ve been thinking a fair bit about the story: where it started, how far it’s come, and all the many pieces of the writing process. Something that makes this story so special to me (other than the fact that I wrote it) is […]

It’s that time of year again. I wish I could say that the weather has cooled off, the leaves are changing, and the air is filled with the indescribable magic that only autumn can bring. Unfortunately, it is still 80 degrees outside with little reprieve in sight as summer retains its iron grip on October. […]

Last week I finished the first draft of my second book. That feels incredibly surreal to say, partly because of how long it took me to write my first book. I had the idea for The Key when I was ten years old and scribbled down the first few pages on wide ruled notebook paper […]

Today is July 31. For a lot of people, this will not mean much. To those people, today is just another Tuesday. And perhaps it marks for them the end of July and the knowledge that tomorrow the sun will rise on the month of August, bringing with it the end of summer vacation. Soon […]

My life is not glamorous. As I am writing this I’m laughing as I wonder who on earth would ever look at me and think, “How fabulous her life must be.” But I think there is a misconception in our society that a person must have life figured out, at least somewhat, based solely on […]