Check out my latest book review for Moniquill Blackgoose's TO SHAPE A DRAGON'S BREATH.
March Came in Like a Snail and Out Like a Cheetah
I feel as though I was limping through the start of the year (for reasons stated in a recent blog post), and then I hit mid-March, and someone turned on the turbo drive. I suddenly had energy. I could focus. Motivation crashed back into my body. I sat down and I got shit done. Writing... Continue Reading →
Book Recommendation: Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee
I'll be honest, I totally judged this book by its cover because its cover is freaking awesome. A woman and her monster bird? Sign me up! cover art by Jaime Jones Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee (published April 2023 by Tordotcom Publishing) is more than just an awesome cover. It's a fantastic book, as evidenced... Continue Reading →
March Counts as the Start of the Year, Right?
Warning: this blog post gets into the details of my recent health issues which were relating the female reproductive system and the gastrointestinal tract. If you're just here for the writing stuff skip to the paragraph beginning "All this to say." I can't believe it's already nearly the end of March. I feel like I... Continue Reading →
My Favorite Books I Read in 2023 (In No Particular Order)
In previous years, I've limited my favorite books read in a year posts to ten. This year, I decided not to limit myself because I read so many books I absolutely adored in 2023 and I just couldn't pare them down to ten. As always, not all of these books were published in 2023, but... Continue Reading →
2023 NaNoWriMo Wrap Up
November is over, meaning National Novel Writing Month has concluded. As mentioned in my last post, I hit the word count goal of 50 thousand words on November 16th, so I "won" NaNoWriMo pretty early on. In that post, I wrote about trying to hit 100 thousand words by the end of the month as... Continue Reading →
50 Thousand Words in 16 Days
So, before we get into my NaNoWriMo updates, I want to make a correction. In my last blog post, I mentioned that this was the first time since 2019 that I was participating in NaNo. That wasn't true. I did, in fact, participate in NaNo in 2020. I wrote over 73 thousand words in November... Continue Reading →
NaNoWriMo 2023: The First Seven Days
For the first time since 2019, I'm participating in National Novel Writing Month this year. For those not as immersed in the online writing community as I am, National Novel Writing Month is an annual event in November, where writers challenge themselves to write fifty thousand words of a novel over thirty days. For more... Continue Reading →
Seeking Beta Readers: The Storm Weaver’s Daughters
made with Canva It took a bit longer than I'd hoped, but I have finally finished the polishing pass for The Storm Weaver's Daughters, and it is ready to go to beta readers. For those of you who aren't as deeply immersed in the writing world and its jargon as I am and have no... Continue Reading →
The Storm Weaver’s Daughters Draft 2 is Done(ish)!
After three years of slogging through the revisions on "The Pirate Novel" - as I have referred to it most often - I have finally finished draft two of the novel currently known as The Storm Weaver's Daughters (this is its third title so who know what it'll actually end up being called once all's... Continue Reading →