Pitch Wars: Have A HEA Even If You Don’t Get Picked This time last year, I was an absolute ball of anxiety. My finger hovered over the refresh button to my email, and I alternated between turning on ALL THE NOTIFICATIONS and locking my phone away. Why? I’d submitted to Pitch Wars. After drafting and […]

Writing a book is amazing. Sure, there are ups and downs as with anything worth doing, but once it’s done? Brilliant. You did it.   Now what? If you want to be traditionally published, that means you get to write some more. Queries. Querying can be really, really, really tough. Queries are an art form […]

The title of this post may give you the idea that I’m doing this well. Juggling, that is. Gotcha there. But somehow I’ve got all this going on. You might say I have commitment issues. You might be right. But, no, not like that. I’ve been married for almost ten years. (Sidebar: WTAF how did […]

Do you participate in any fun Twitter hashtag parties? I’ve tried a couple, because I am not shy and I need some sort of social contact with human adults after being home with small children all day. Y’all get me? Small humans are a lot. (And yes, I adore them, and YES, I know I […]

If you know me even a teensy bit, you know I have -as the kids say- zero chill. Having to keep quiet about this news has aged me at least a decade. Luckily for all who look upon my dread visage, I invested in moisturizer. I digress. I HAVE AN AGENT! The amazingly intelligent, patient, […]

It’s a fact of life all writers have to deal with: making time to actually sit down and bang out words can be one of the hardest parts of working creatively. As a mom of three (5, 2, and 9 months) the above picture is often what this looks like for me. That’s right; I […]