April 5, 2023April 30, 2023
You know how some people have those Cinderella stories where they write a novel in a month with no prior experience whatsoever and they get signed by the first agent...
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March 30, 2023
Hello fellow Succession fans! As a writer I’m interested in watching fantastic TV shows to study how they create great characters and storylines. For those of you who have not...
March 13, 2023March 10, 2023
Hello! I’ve got some interesting news. This month I sent my first agent query letter and… she requested the full manuscript! Now it’s an eight week wait-and-see process, but I’m...
March 6, 2023January 27, 2023
Why say something in one word when you can say it in 36 words, right? Wrong. Unless you’re Charles Dickens and getting paid by the word, today’s reader doesn’t have...
February 16, 2023February 15, 2023
First Agent Meeting There’s a scene in the mob cult classic movie Goodfellas. Teenager Henry Hill (Ray Liotta’s character) is doing some shady work for the local mafia and gets...
February 2, 2023February 2, 2023
Every year for my birthday I do something to scare myself. It’s like having a bucket list only instead of doing a hundred things then dropping dead I do one...
January 30, 2023January 24, 2023
The most important thing in a book, TV show or movie is to have a killer opening. Afterall, if you don’t hook your audience immediately they’re likely to move on....
January 23, 2023January 20, 2023
How many books can you read in a year? Some reading rock stars include Warren Buffet (5-6 hours reading per day), Bill Gates (50 books per year), Mark Zuckerberg (1...
January 11, 2023
Big Name Change! After taking everyone’s feedback to heart, I’ve changed the name of the book from “Trouble the Water” to “To Rescue a Witch”. My friend, Syd Young, who...
December 27, 2022
That time I accidentally deleted my manuscript… It’s been a really crazy month! For Thanksgiving I treated myself to this super-awesome writing software called Scrivener, because all the cool kids...
November 24, 2022November 24, 2022
Here’s my Goal Check in from last month: Status: I finished the villain arc edits! And they are deliciously evil. Status: The witchcraft themes are loosely connected, but I wouldn’t...
October 13, 2022
I’ll confess: I’ve been fascinated by witches since I was a little girl, which is why they’ve ended up in my historical fiction, Trouble the Water (coming 2023). Set in...
October 6, 2022
They feared the witch would rise from the mud, so they locked her body in a wooden chest, buried her during low tide then lowered a half-ton sandstone slab on...
September 5, 2022
Good news: I went to Scotland! Bad news: I caught Covid! I had a very mild case and tested negative quickly, so I was able to still see a lot....
August 28, 2022August 28, 2022
Confession: I’ve liked Outlander, the series by Diana Gabaldon, since my friend, Deidre, introduced me to the books back in 2005. My husband and I were taking our first vacation...
July 11, 2022
I’m going to Scotland! My novel Trouble the Water is going to be part of a series. The bulk of Book 1 takes place in Williamsburg, Virginia and on a...
