Last year I wrote a short story entitled “Woodbine.” It is a feminist tale, full of subtle allusions and magic. The story was accepted into The Sci-Fi & Fantasy Writers’ Guild anthology Depths of Love, and will be published tomorrow by Cloaked Press. I am beyond thrilled for this story to be out in the… Read More A Published Author
A quick recap of the last few weeks and my plans for the remainder of the year. Chaos and Nothing I won’t go into detail about all the things that have been keeping me busy lately. But between my oldest starting kindergarten, all the germs and resulting illnesses he brings home, and getting accustomed to… Read More Chaos and Nothing
Veins of Gold by Charlie N. Holmberg features a creative and captivating magic system that I absolutely adored! It is a stand alone, but I hope to one day see more stories set in this world where magic is fed by gold. Desperate to save her siblings from poverty, a young woman discovers magic fueled… Read More Veins of Gold Blog Tour & Giveaway
This month has flown by. I participated in Camp NanoWriMo, wrote a short story, read twelve books, and met some of my favorite authors at a book festival! Writing My Camp NanoWriMo goal was 30 hours of brainstorming, revising, or editing. It’s a good thing I left it so open because after about two days… Read More All About April
I’m not really sure what my excuse is for forgetting to blog. I got distracted with WriteOnCon, reading, my sister visiting…I don’t know. Maybe I’m just lazy. Either way, I’m here now, and this is what I’ve been up to the last two months. I finished my manuscript! At 70,840 words, the first draft of… Read More That time I forgot to blog for two months
Quick post to share what I accomplished in January and to name some goals for February! January: Writing I wrote 50,000 words of my WIP! It was a struggle there at the end to maintain my quick pace, but thanks to having a shared goal with a few other writers, I was able to see… Read More Hello February
Realized I haven’t blogged in a while, so I thought I’d give a quick update on my WIP and what I’m reading. The Sword of the Witch I’m currently writing draft 1.5 of my story The Sword of the Witch. I wrote 35k words of it last July, but then decided I needed to make… Read More Quick Update
This month, I was thrilled to receive an advanced e-copy of Charlie N. Holmberg’s The Plastic Magian, set to release May 15, 2018. The blurb: Alvie Brechenmacher has arrived in London to begin her training in Polymaking—the magical discipline of bespelling plastic. Polymaking is the newest form of magic, and in a field where there is so… Read More Book Review: The Plastic Magician
It’s been quite a year! Here’s a wrap up of what I’ve accomplished: Writing Early in the year I completed a 92,000 word YA contemporary fantasy. It needs heavy revision, so I’ll most likely attack it as a rewrite when I come back to it. Then I worked on edits for my fairytale but didn’t… Read More 2017 in Review
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