Dean’s Novella You’ve wanted this story for a long time and I have wanted to give it to you but I have been stumped. It doesn’t happen often but Dean has been giving me a rough time. His story just won’t come to me. So one day in our marketing meeting, it came to me […]
It was the winter of 1986 and I was eight years old. The stage that had held beauty contestants all night changed and suddenly there was a band. Five … or was it four… I can’t be sure… teenage boys filled the stage. I don’t remember much about that night except one thing – A […]
Over the past eight months (which was about when my weight loss really started to show) I’ve received many emails, Facebook messages, Tweets, Instagram comments, and questions at book signings all concerning my weight loss. To everyone else it appeared to be a quick thing. Like I had a secret and they wanted […]
The day Breathe was released massive butterflies partied in my stomach, all day. I’ve already described how scared I was in a previous post. Putting myself out there to be “reviewed” by the world was terrifying. Letting others read my work is still difficult. As a writer, I want people to […]
I just recently answered some questions for someone I am doing a guest blog for this month. She asked me things I hadn’t really thought about before. The question that had me looking more closely at my weirdness was the one concerning my writing quirks. I happen to suck on Twizzlers […]