Can y'all tell I'm playing catch up? Spring-time is flirting with summer, and I'm feeling super-productive. And, naturally, I want to shout about some books that I love. So here we go. I read 71 books in 2025 (and DNF'ed an additional 10). Storygraph conveniently tracks stats and provides a nice visual overview, so I…
Continue reading ➞ 8 Book Recommendations From My 2025 Read List
May is Mental Health Awareness month in the U.S. and I thought maybe now would be a good time to talk about something very small I've done for myself in the last couple of years that has helped boost my mental state: walking away from books that aren't bringing me joy (and not picking them…
Continue reading ➞ Reading for Pleasure & Learning to DNF (plus some book recs)
Whew, January is already over and here I am finally sitting down to do my year-end wrap on books from 2024. What exactly have I been doing with my life? Well, searching for a day job after joining one of the many game dev studios getting shut down last year. Writing a video game (personal…
Having a friend recently ask me the rather broad "What's your creative process?" question has me reflecting more on what that process truly is and how it's evolved over the years. This morning, that reflection had me thinking about the blank page that's seemingly insurmountable for many writers (and creators in general). It's something I…
*I started writing this post months ago and then life got hectic before I could finish it. Today someone asked me about my creative process and it reminded me that this post was waiting for me to complete it. Earlier this year a friend of mine who is also an author asked me a rather…
I've taken to listening to audio books on my drive to and from work. It keeps me a little more zen when traffic is bad. When picking out audiobooks for my commute, I keep the following things in mind: 1) Length - know how long you have I'm checking audiobooks out from my public library.…
Continue reading ➞ What I’ve listened to in 2023 (so far) – Audiobooks
Wow, it's been over six months since I've posted here! Life got busy. I have no other excuse. I have been editing my latest manuscript, a fantasy murder mystery set in 1940's (magical) Pacific Northwest. But if you're here looking for books to read now you don't care about my unpublished manuscript! Let's get to…
I recently had someone ask me how I found my writing community. I had to pause and think about it. Here's why: I didn't find it, I built it. How it started... Rewind back to 2014—I didn't have a writing community. I wrote on the bus to and from work, over lunch, and in the…
Juneteenth is a day commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. What better way to celebrate than to support Black authors and creators? Not all of the authors on this list are African Americans, but I've enjoyed their works and would like to promote Black authors generally. I've linked to the books on bookshop.org because…
Continue reading ➞ Happy Juneteenth! – Support Black Authors
I'm finally back in the querying trenches, and that means I'm able to take a breath, look around, and realize I haven't written a blog post in ages. Between a rather hectic several months at the day job, revising and revising and revising, and beginning to draft a new manuscript, I haven't exactly had the…
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