October was a month of writing, editing, and rounding out projects. Read on to learn more about the short stories I'm working on, books I've read, and more.
Category: Novel Writing
August Author Updates
Life update: I turned 33! My birthday was lovely and filled with cake, books, and seafood. August is normally my short story challenge month. If you're new around here or need a refresher, my August Short Story Challenge is when I task myself with writing a new short story a day for the whole month … Continue reading August Author Updates
Author Memoir Reading List and Book Club
The way authors create and think is a technique in itself. When I explain a story idea's life and creation to another writer and vice versa, there's always small amazement how the connections happen.
Author Life Updates: June and July 2023
Links to stories, notes on writing noms, and what I've been working on over the past couple of months.
South Sound Speculative Fiction Writing Group
I love writing. It's my lifeblood or my heart pulse; it's the thing that keeps me going. Noodling over a writing problem or coming up with a new story feels like living to me. But when I'm doing it in a community of other writers, it feels like magic.
Author Life Updates: April and May 2023
Ignyte nom, short story writing and editing, reading, and more!
Author Life Updates: February and March 2023
I'm at this really interesting point in my career, where I don't want to miss anything, in a sense. I'm doing what I have always wanted to do: be a professionally published working writer who tells a good story well. Like I look back over the places I've published and worked with over the past few years and am pretty flabbergasted.
Author Life Updates: January 2023
Entering year five of the blog (!!!) and with a lot of my history as a writer stored here, I'm always wondering how to change or update the blog to meet my life.
Writing Life Updates: End of 2022
Monthly check-ins are easy to do, but year-end wrap-ups are hard. I write and publish a lot in various markets, so it's not as though I don't have links to share. It's just that when I look back over my year, the amount of stories I've sold and how much I've published is only a small part of my writing career. More happens behind the scenes than I think I will ever fully share.
Writing Life Updates: October 2022
Stories, stories, stories, and bread! But mostly story news about my novella, novelette, and short stories.









