Life is interesting, isn’t it? We set our goals and aim much higher than our arms can reach so that we’ll do the absolute best we can, bu...

The other day, I got a message from someone asking if she could PLEASE review my book, If I Let You Go. She linked to her site in her mes...

I want to talk about bad reviews today. When I was in college, I studied Communication, specifically Media & Technology. It was an intere...

As you know by now, I’m in love with J.A. Konrath’s blog. In a post made a few years ago, one of the things he suggested to do is to join...

The volume of my distractions never ceases to surprise me. Currently, I’m supposed to be talking to my boyfriend about book cover designe...

If you’re on Twitter, you heard about this trending hashtag today: #ThingsOnlyWomenWritersHear. It started as a way to reveal sexism in t...

You ever get so wrapped up in something that you lose track of time, or just don’t care about time at all? I stayed up late last night to...

It used to be that when authors released a book, they’d travel the country, visiting every bookstore known to man to sign their books and...

If you’ve read much at all about writing you’ve probably heard of the Snowflake Method, but what is it? To simplify, it’s a method that m...

Think of the people in your life. You know their age groups, their personalities, their hopes, dreams, and fears. The characters we read ...

I get a lot of shocked, disappointed looks when I tell people that I plan to self-publish. I usually get the following questions and comm...

Every weekend, my boyfriend and I go out to eat somewhere. This past weekend, as we were waiting for a breakfast skillet and eggs benedi...

It’s been a while! Editing is going well with 19,000 words left. I made 3 book cover mock-ups. This was the first. I like it, but it’s ...

I’ve never been very into art, but I will say this: I love me some 80s-style imagery. That’s why this book cover post by J.A. Konrath too...

To hold myself accountable, I’m going to update a post once a week with my word counts. As long as I’m making about 10 pages of progress...

When I told myself I wanted to finish my third draft of If I Let You Go by Christmas, I didn’t realize I had about half the book to go. T...

In my last post, I touched upon how I’ve been using Twitter to meet more people and make more people aware of my writing. As of this pos...

As I’ve mentioned before, I spend a lot of time reading J.A. Konrath’s blog. I’m not sure where he’s disappeared to as of late, but his ...

I thought draft #3 was done, until I gave my book to my first beta-reader, my boyfriend. Verdict on draft #3 of If I Let You Go: He loves...

In between life and worries and adventures, I’ve edited about 6,000 words and added another thousand or so. I have 5,000 left. I could ...