About the Author
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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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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, I’m letting you have a peek inside my brain as to why I write romance—and why I always will.…
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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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Why I Write Historical Fiction
You may recognize the painting. It’s Ferdinand Keller’s Scheherazade and Sultan Schariar. You will almost certainly recognize the story—or, rather, stories—behind the subjects of the work. When people ask me why I originally…
