young adult fiction author
In my TBR post earlier this month, I set a pretty low goal of reading 3 books. I *did* reach that goal, but I didn’t read all the books I set out to read. So for May 2019, here’s my TBR: Amelia Westlake Was Never Here by Erin GoughYou Asked for Perfect by Laura SilvermanStory…
Everyone has a TBR, right? A pile of books to be read, one that grows ever larger depending on the day. I want to post a monthly TBR of books I hope to read, not only fiction, but also craft books & non-fiction (I’m working on expanding my horizons!). I can usually read about 2…
Everyone fails. Einstein. Steve Jobs. Tony Stark (yeah, I know he’s not real. But it still counts!). Every single person that has achieved anything great has failed at least once. Most people fail repeatedly, and their success hinges not on their failures, but on their ability to pick themselves up and keep going. Currently, I’m…
Author Mentor Match—or AMM for short—opens for submissions for Round 6 from March 1-5, 2019. AMM is a mentoring program that matches YA and MG writers with published or pre-published authors. Want to learn more? Follow the hashtags #authormentormatch, #ammfam, and #ammparty on Twitter. Watch the video below for more information from AMM’s co-creator, Alexa Donne! SUBMISSIONS OPEN MARCH 1…
Well, hello. I haven’t blogged on here in a while, and even though its always my intention to do so, I just lose track of time and find myself spiraling into the rabbit hole that is YouTube or Facebook. (Bad use of time, let me tell you.) I originally wrote this as a thread on…
So, I’m not usually one to give up on a book. There are very few I will actually delegate to my DNF pile, and only if I really, *really* can’t get through it. Two books spring to mind immediately from the last year that I DNF’d—VASSA IN THE NIGHT by Sarah Porter and RIVERKEEP by…
Hey y’all! I know I haven’t blogged in a while – since July 2016! – but one of my goals for 2017 is to blog more often. Here’s a list of writing goals I’d like to achieve or be on the way to achieving in 2017: Finish a first draft of something new Edit/revise THE…
#PimpMyBio is an optional blog post for the Pitch Wars 2016 mentee hopefuls. If you don’t know what Pitch Wars is, take a look over at Brenda Drake’s site, and learn all you want to know! It’s basically an awesome contest for writers where mentees (like me!) join up with mentors in the business (authors,…
Hey y’all! Now that my novel THE ADEPT is complete and in the hands of my trusted beta readers, and I have to constantly remind myself NOT to edit while its out, I’m finally working on a new project. Basically this idea came to me fully-formed during a dream (after binge watching Marvel’s Jessica Jones,…
Hey y’all! I’ve had some ups and downs lately, and I decided to post about them here for y’all to read. I know not many people follow my blog, but I wanted to start writing about, well, my writing. So here it goes! These past few weeks have been spectacular in my writing world. I finished–yes,…