I’m excited to share that my story “Ready for Combat” is being published in the anthology “Fight Like A Girl: Vol 2.” by Wizard Tower Press. If you missed the first volume, here’s the overall theme of the anthology: “The …
How 2023 Shaped The Essence of 2024
2023, I bid you farewell. This was a year of massive change. I began 2023 living in a friend’s spare room as her lodger, and ended it in my own flat with 2 pet house rabbits. Writing was almost non-existent, …
Welcoming In The Essence of 2023
It’s 2023. I always reach this point and want to laugh at how I thought I was on my way “up” after a few hard years of falling down, but this year I can say I did at least climb …
Getting Back to Writing: The Process of Integration
A Brief Overview For those who may not know my history, I began writing novels in 2009 with my first National Novel Writing Month. In 2012, I began to ‘get serious’ about the craft. I researched agents and submitted a …
Welcoming In The Essence of 2022
Welcome in, 2022. The last couple of years have been a gentle spiral down, and I find myself finally rising up out of the mud to unfurl my lotus petals. In 2021, I focused on measuring all writing – not …
LEVEL-UP! The Essence of Green – Apr – Sep 2021
“The summer air is hot and still, the afternoon hazy; crickets call relentlessly from among the brown grasses, and ears of corn are the same heavy, burnished gold as the late-day sun. Hawks circle in the blue-white sky overhead, and …