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I blinked, and 2019 is nearly over. It was a truly fascinating year in my life, a test of a year, and it kept my brain and my heart very busy. One of my resolutions going into this year was to focus more on gratitude, and I’m happy to say, mission accomplished. By choosing everyContinue reading “2019: Yikes”

What can I say about querying… I loved it and hated it in equal measure. Each query I sent out felt like a chance at finding my dream agent to carry me forward into the next steps of my writing career, and I loved that feeling. But also, each query carried with it the potentialContinue reading “How I Got My Agent”

Welcome to the world, A Dream Within a Dream! I love you just as much as your older sibling, if not more because you’re so much younger and cuter and you have so much more war in you. No, I couldn’t choose a favorite. They represent such different things to me, this pair. All That WeContinue reading “A Dream Within a Dream Release Day”

What can I say about this year… it has been a YEAR. An absolute 365 day year. If you remember my post from last year, 2017 was a true upheaval. In contrast, 2018 has been the pieces that were thrown into the air in 2017 falling into their proper places. As you probably know byContinue reading “2018 in the Rearview Mirror”

I want every single person to love every single word I write. It’s just what I want. Why is that too much to ask for? Haha, self. Haha. I have read NYT Bestsellers that I did not enjoy. I have read universally panned books that I loved. There is a reason there are so manyContinue reading “On Realizing You Can’t Please Everyone”

Here we go here we go here we go! I am going to use exclamation points in an attempt to fire myself up! Not that I’m not fired up. I am really, really excited to dive into a fresh new story and play with words for the next three months. But hell if I’m notContinue reading “Another New Beginning”

This is the book I wanted to write at this precise moment of my life. Unequivocally. As scale goes, it’s much smaller than my prior three books. For one thing, it’s almost entirely rooted in reality. There’s just one teeny tiny detail that veers it into the fantasy realm (that whole hearts-going-up-in-flames element, no big.)Continue reading “On Heartfire”

Everyone says it feels strange, and I get that. It does. There’s a book in the world with my name on the cover. People have it in their hands. People are reading it. It’s no longer my sheltered baby that I lean over protectively, my arms circling it, shielding it. As it is in otherContinue reading “Now What?”

All That We See or Seem comes out tomorrow. That is a series of words I never thought I’d get to write, for so many reasons. I’ve posted before about my path to publishing. This isn’t going to be that. This is going to be simple, straight-up, gratitude. I am really, really grateful. I haveContinue reading “From There to Here”

If I know anything about writing books, it’s this: I know nothing about writing books. I can do it. It’s something I can do. But each time I get to the end, I don’t know how it happened. It’s like I black out for a couple months, and when I wake up, there’s a storyContinue reading “On Dreams (Within Dreams)”