April is National Poetry Month and my latest collection is here! In honor of National Poetry Month both of my chapbooks are on sale for .99 cents for the month of April. The Life Cycle of a Star is a
I’m Giving Up On Self-publishing
I’m not sure how to start this post. I just typed out four different openings and deleted all of them. I’ve never been one to sugar-coat things so I’m going to cut right to the chase. I’m done. Self-publishing has
New Book of Poetry Cover Reveal
In a few weeks, I’ll be releasing another chapbook of poetry just in time for National Poetry Month (April). So, without further ado… The Life Cycle of a Star Isn’t it gorgeous? I love it. I loved it so much,
Just a little update
February is always a bad month for me. No matter what’s going on and no matter where I live, I always end up with a case of depression. This depression clouds my judgment and makes me see things in a
Social Media Expectations and Publishing
I have a lot of things I could say about this subject, but this blog post hits on everything I’ve suspected and some conclusions I arrived at on my own without the experience — the point about how publishing controls
Why I Wrote The Voices Upstairs
This was the second book I ever wrote, and until recently, my least favorite. At the time I came up with the idea, I was reading about a murder case from the late 1920s where the murderer was schizophrenic, claiming
Why I Wrote The Good Daughter
Oh, brother, where to start? Many years ago, I realized I had a narcissist in my life and began studying narcissism to understand how to deal with said person. I found an old cassette tape with a couple of songs
Why I Wrote Doll Parts
This was a treadmill idea, meaning I got it while walking on the treadmill. It was meant to be released as a series of connected short stories (a serial, which were popular at the time) in which a doll army
Why I Wrote There I am in Pieces Again
There’s a decade of my life I would love to forget. It broke me. When I moved away from the situation, I didn’t know if I would ever be the same again. But after a short time away, emotions, in
Why I Wrote Ricki Rydell
The next five or so blog posts will be about why I wrote the books I did. What was the motivation? Where did the idea come from? That sort of thing. I like reading about why authors write their books,