My best friend in college and I used to have a habit of listening to the same song/s over and over and over again. For a long while, it was “Beaucoup Fish” by Underworld; at another point, it was “Only Happy When it Rains by Garbage. There was another song Read more…
From the first time I saw it, I knew I would read Just Juliet by Charlotte Reagan eventually. I loved the cover, it had a ton of positive reviews, and it stayed at the top of the Amazon charts for forever before it finally started to fall. So by the time Read more…
In case you didn’t hear, I had a great time hanging out with Tracy Fort and Brandon Huddleston on Tracy’s radio show on Friday. She asked me lots about my writing, lots about what I want to do for 2017 to contribute to the world. (You can listen to the Read more…
Did you see the post I wrote about how a random title and cover came to me before I’d ever written word one of the book? Well, I didn’t intend to, but I might have written the first chapter just now. Here it is. — “A heap of broken images, Read more…
Let me preface this review by explaining something about myself: I am a dork. I am a dork, and I like silly, dorky movies and books. Especially silly, dorky romcom teen stuff. I don’t know why. I mean, I’m almost forty. But I love Say Anything and Sixteen Candles and Read more…
I wouldn’t really say that I get writer’s block. I fully believe in Stephen King’s quote about how “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” I also believe that the best cure for not knowing what to write is to Read more…
I read this article online today that kicked off a storm of raging guilt. To summarize: So basically, you are taking these characters and putting them into a new world that the writer created, with new circumstances and settings. Now this is where it gets tricky. How alternate can a universe Read more…
Well, I’m afraid I did it again. My night owl tendencies got the better of me and I stayed up until 3:30am. Don’t ask me how I’m functioning today; I don’t know the answer. What was I doing until the wee hours of the night (or morning)? Watching Fingersmith, an Read more…