Here we are at four months away from my debut launch and I was feeling the energy and excitement and nerves around ‘someday’ turning the corner to ‘soon.’ Then three little words shifted my perspective.
Read moreFive 80’s YA Books That Shaped Me as a Writer
Love, family, and friendship. The hope, humor, and heartbreak involved in every meaningful relationship. This is what I write about. And I must thank the following five books that I read as a teen for shaping my author identity today.
Read moreProgress Report #17: Happy 2nd Blogaversary!
Celebrating 2 years of blogging and the latest additions to the “Things I Didn’t Know I Didn’t Know” list.
Read morePutting the "Us" in "Focus"
Here it is, the audience participation portion of my debut publishing journey.
Read moreBooks and Beyond 2022 (or How to Read When You Just Can’t Choose a Book)
I spent a lot of time not reading this year. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to, or that the books that crossed my path this year were unreadable. If anything, it was the opposite. This year was filled to the brim with absolutely marvelous books, so much so that I became unable to read a book because to choose one meant that I wasn’t choosing another.
So as I sit here trying to organize my thoughts (and failing, see paragraphs 1&2) about my favorite reads of 2022, my focus keeps shifting to all the ways I consumed books this year beyond reading them.
And thus, I give you, my favorite book-ish experiences of 2022
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