You may already know that I went through a period of burnout from around 2019 to 2023. You may also know the backstory of my Storms in Amethir series. Today I want to revisit that a little as prelude to explaining how and why things are changing with the Storms in …
Today’s post is about HB90, productivity, and writing. But first, a little context. For the past year and a half, my day-job title has been Editorial Assistant and Project Manager. My job has involved writing and editing news articles, feature articles, and other copy. But the larger part of my …
It’s December again, and it seems like in modern western culture that means stress. Stress about time commitments, family commitments or lack thereof, present-buying, present-wrapping, crowd-fighting, traffic backups… The list goes on and on. It’s all too easy for me to succumb to the stress of the season–until I remind …
There’s been a lot of silence over here, hasn’t there? I was in a huge slump, so I decided at the last minute to do NaNoWriMo this year–with a completely different project and absolutely no outline. It was definitely a good decision! I’ve written 8 days in a row and …
I know it’s been very quiet here. I haven’t been doing a lot of writing over the past couple of years. But today I’m posting because I have a story in an anthology that releases today! G is for Ghosts is the most recent installation in Rhonda Parrish’s Alphabet Anthologies …
Who’s ready for The Weather War? I know I am! I can’t wait to hear what everyone thinks of the novel. It’s been quite a journey trying to get this just right–but I am one-hundred-percent confident that, by delaying the release of the novel, I’ve made The Weather War the best novel it …
A couple of weeks ago, I went on vacation. A lot of it was sight-seeing and hiking, the sort of thing I like to do in my free time. But I also spent one day doing some very important Weather War ship research–which had the bonus of being amazingly fun. I …
One thing I absolutely love about writing urban fantasy is how many little details of life in the Indianapolis area I can squeeze in. (Another thing I love is how easy it is to research, compared to something set in a completely made-up secondary world!) I spent a lot of …
One of the best things about being a writer is how you can live so many different lives through your fiction. In one of my manuscripts, I have a character, Evan Maddox, who drives a brand new Chevy Camaro, because he likes loud and flashy things and has an almost reckless …
I have a Bachelor of Arts in History and Creative Writing. That BA in History taught me a lot about doing research and how to pick good sources. I’ve always had a love of research, from the time I was the kid who couldn’t get her hands on enough books …
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