LOVE SPEAKS

If you've known me for any length of time, you know that every year, around this time, I talk about choosing a word to carry with you...

It's been three and a half weeks since the publication of Awakening Hearts, and, already, my heart has been touched in so many ways by...

Yesterday, I received my first critical review on Goodreads. I was going to write a whole post about the feels it stirred and the intense...

The first reviews are trickling in for Awakening Hearts. When you spend 6 years working on a novel, you have many moments when you doubt...

It’s a surreal moment when you see your own book listed on Amazon for the first time. When it’s finally real—the dream you’ve envisioned...

It’s been a little while since I’ve written a blog post that was more than just a few lines to accompany a picture. A post that was a bit...

Has the state of the world been weighing on you? Maybe a combination of your own personal challenges and the ongoing madness in the...

No, I'm not talking about literal murder. I'm talking about deleting scenes you've slaved over. Whole paragraphs of content you've spent...

Yesterday, I felt completely overwhelmed, wondering how I would ever get my manuscript “good enough” to publish, without spending another...

Never leave your reader too satisfied. - Jordan Rosenfeld This is something I’m learning still. My natural tendency is to want to wrap up...

While my manuscript was with my editor last week, I started writing my second novel. Book one is written in third person, and primarily...

I spent my afternoon researching goat labor and delivery and writing a goat birthing scene I'm totally in love with. A little excerpt:...

So many of us are going through major transformations at the moment, standing at the precipice of monumental change. Do you dare step...

Your destination may not yet be clear, but, if you focus on each step, one at a time, remaining present in the moment, the path will rise...

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. André Gide

Today's mission: Gathering all the input I've received on my manuscript and finding back to my own true voice. I've realized that, with...

A few weeks ago, I happened across a webinar with Alessandra Torre and Tex Thompson, titled “Don’t Give Up On Your Book - 5 Success...

As I’m working on revising and re-revising my novel, deconstructing and reconstructing the paragraphs I’ve already poured so much blood,...

The satisfaction when you finally find the right word for a passage you’ve gone over countless times before, and it never sat just right....

Some days, the words flow easily… others, I can spend hours refining just one paragraph until I feel I got it “right.” (And that’s not to...