Are you familiar with National Novel Writing Month? It’s a chance to push yourself to write 50,000 words of your novel in one month. It takes place every November, which makes absolutely no sense. November is a busy month. And…
Happily Ever After Still Matters
Today I saw a bit of Greta Thunberg’s speech to the United Nations about the climate crisis. Faced with her passion and her absolutely understandable panic over climate change, I had a moment where I felt like I should give up…
Progress not Perfection
Anyone else get a little hung up on perfection in their writing? That feeling that if you could just polish your story a little more, then you’ll let someone else take a look at it? And then, after a few…
After the Rodeo is Out Now!
It’s a two-book-release summer! Reunited with the Cowboy came out in July, and After the Rodeo is out this week. Both books are in my Heroes of Shelter Creek series, set in a fictional small town in the beautiful coastal…
Mountain Lions in Reunited with the Cowboy
Many readers have let me know how much they enjoyed learning about mountain lions in my new book, Reunited with the Cowboy. I’ve enjoyed learning about them too! It’s interesting to me, how much we think we know about a…
Write from the Heart
I’m sure you’ve heard these ideas before. Write what’s in your heart. Write the book you want to read. Write the story that seems the most frightening, the most impossible, the most challenging. The story that feels like it needs…
The Story Behind the Book
Every book has a story behind it. Or several. Because all books are born of an author’s life and experience and whatever path he or she walked for that book to be published. Sometimes those paths can be smooth, but…
BookBub Contest!
I’m part of a BookBub contest! We’re giving away all kinds of books and an e-reader, and all you have to do to enter is follow me on BookBub! Want to increase your chances of winning? Follow more of the…
My Favorite Facebook Hangout
There’s a place on Facebook where I love to hang out. You can find me there most days. It’s really the one social media spot where I manage to consistently show up. Why? Because my friends are there! And they…
Before anything else… words!
This is my new mantra. Before anything else… words. It’s possible I may have it tattooed on my arm, right where a wristwatch would normally go. Before anything else. Writing. Words. First. Because… time. It slips and slides away faster…