Hi everyone! I hope you’re having a good week so far! I’m blogging about something more serious today, but I won’t go into any awful details. This week, Vulture ran a long story about the author Neil Gaiman’s abuse of women. If I’m understanding things clearly, it adds to information already shared in a podcast last summer. I’m not going
Welcome to Work in Progress Wednesday! WIP Wednesday is usually the first Wednesday of every month. It’s when I share an excerpt of what I’m working on, and if you’re a writer, so can you! Be sure you’re subscribed to the blog (sign up in the upper lefthand corner) so you’ll get a heads up about future WIP Wednesdays. And
Hi all! Happy New Year! I hope it’s off to a good start! We had a road trip to Arizona to visit family. We’re very lucky that the dogs are good travelers! They enjoy hanging out in the backseat, napping or checking out the scenery, and they aren’t alarmed to find themselves in various motels. Anyway, I wanted to tell
For the past several years, I’ve chosen a word of the year…and it has not always worked out! The year I chose “Fun,” for example, hoping to focus on fun activities, was one of the least fun years of my adult life. I’m happy to say that I have learned absolutely nothing from my disappointments. After all, on a few
For my romcom novel that came out last month, I tried a lot of author marketing… I made TikToks and Instagram posts and reels, trying out different angles and tactics. (I also tweeted, but I’ve since left Twitter/X for Bluesky, because Twitter/X stopped letting you block mean people and had way too much yelling.) I got into my hometown paper
When I started this blog for writers and other dreamers, with the tagline “tell your stories, love your life,” a couple of people laughed right in my face. It was in early December, 2014, and they said, “Nobody reads blogs any more!” Since that time, I’ve had over 13 million visits to the blog, and countless people have told
My romcom / fantasy romance novel, Her Knight at the Museum, is now out in the world… But if you get my newsletter or follow me on social media, you already knew that! I’ll share one of my favorite moments from the book below, and then I’ll talk about the release week! “Readers looking for a fresh and fun take