For those of you following along, we’re on Day 5 of NaNoWriMo. We’ve completed four days of literary madness. Or just madness. Take your pick. Now the FUN part starts. Okay, I’m lying. Some of what comes next isn’t fun. We’ve ridden the adrenaline wave of starting out and are settling into that stretch where […]
This past weekend, I had author Jodi Redford visiting for a few days. I willingly put everything on hold for this visit because OMG! SHE’S A FREAKING HOOT AND I ADORE HER! But this got me thinking… you can prepare and plan and plot until the cows come home and yet sometimes things happen that […]
I have ten days to finish my preparedness checklist for NaNo. I know what I’m writing about (ZOMBIES! And two non-zombie people who like to get naked a lot!) and I know where the story needs to start and end. In my opinion, these are probably the most important things. I can do a lot […]
A few weeks ago, I started an impromptu rewatching of Supernatural. I’m in the middle of season 2 and I’m LOVING the balance between drama and humor that those Winchester boys bring to the table. (I’m up to the Trickster episode — Dean, we don’t need more of your blah blah blah blah. Blah blah […]
Both the hardest and the easiest thing about writing is that there is no one right way to do things. It’s hard because there’s no road map to getting it done. You have to forge your own path and figure out what works for you. It’s easy because YOU GET TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WORKS […]
I’m going to take the month of October to talk about NaNoWriMo and the things I do to prepare for a balls-to-the-wall month of writing. But first, let me preface this… For those that don’t know, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. I’ve been participating in NaNo since 2005 (with a bleak year off […]
So, I finished writing book 2 in the Demonkind Collective. Now what? Honestly, writing that bad boy is only the first step (as I’m sure many of you know). Last week, I put it aside to let it percolate and to focus on finishing up book 2 in my zombie apocalypse love story series (more […]
Don’t quote me on this but I think I finished up the initial draft of Demon Besieged last night. Before edits, it clocks in at over 33K words. We’ll see where it is after I tweak and fiddle and my FANTASTIC copy editor gets her hands on it to clear up all my weird sentences. […]
(Like a cover reveal, but with less pictures of half-naked demons. NO WORRIES, GUYS! The half-naked demons will come later. In more ways than one.) If you read Demon Restrained, you might have noticed the synopsis for book 2 hiding out at the very, very end. Since I’m well on my way to finishing the […]
I hit publish on my first book today. As I keep telling people, it’s both an exciting and a terrifying moment. AND IT IS. One thing I haven’t done yet is officially reveal the cover or title. (If you’re savvy and/or you poked around the site a bit, you might have already seen this but […]