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Embracing Transformation: My 2025 Word of the Year and What it Means for Writers
I didn’t think I’d have a 2025 word of the year. I had a few contenders—illuminate, growth, evolve, awaken, empower—but none captured what a huge year 2025 promises to be for me, personally.…
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My Next Grand Adventure: Moving from Orlando to Newark (and Reinventing My Writing Career)
I decided to leave Writer’s Atelier at the end of June 2024, blissfully unaware that it would be the least ground-shaking change of my summer. It’s not that I wasn’t happy as WA’s…
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My New Way of Looking at the Writing Process
My mother affectionately calls me a magpie. Everywhere I went as a child, I stopped to pick up shiny things and noticed little details others missed, a trend that’s continued all the way…
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I Created a Road Trip-themed Word Crawl Game on Dorian to Help You Write a Novel
I feel so lucky for so many reasons. One of them is that I was born during autumn, my favorite time of year. Even better, I was born in November, which is National…
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A Yearly Writing Schedule I Just Might Follow
In November of 2022, something magical happened. I “won” National Novel Writing Month by writing 50,010 words during November’s thirty days. And I’ve been chasing that high ever since. Apparently, I love the…
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Why I Write Romance
There is almost always a thread of romance running through anything I write. Now, in honor of my inclusion in The Romance Writer Super Stack, I’m letting you have a peek inside my…
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Why Everything Looks Different Now
Our story begins with a single color. I can tell you exactly how that color came into my life, too: with this very website’s first color scheme, which was based off of Rimsky-Korsakov’s…
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Read the First Chapter of IN ST. LOUIS WITH YOU
Do you remember In Charleston With You, from all the way back in April of 2021? In Chapter Six of that book, the heroine, Genevieve, mentions her childhood friend who moved to St. Louis before…
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Read the First Chapter of IN CHARLESTON WITH YOU
I’m pleased to announce I’ve successfully done what I secretly wanted to do for my past two books and never got around to doing—include the Victorian language of flowers! Yes, In Charleston With…
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Come Along on My Pandemic-Safe “Writing Retreat” to Get Ready for NaNoWriMo
National Novel Writing Month—a challenge to write fifty thousand words within November’s thirty days—will be here in just over two weeks. I’ve participated “seriously” thrice in the past, and so I recall with…
