Tag: books
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Ranking the Top Five Most Unhinged YA Love Triangles
We love to hate a chaotic love triangle, but we keep coming back for more. I feel like there was a period in publishing where the romance was overrun with a chaotic, messy love triangle. So much that it became not only a part of the social lexicon, but an identity to wear on a…
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Cover Reveal: Something Bright and Beautiful
The cover of SOMETHING BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL! I have been waiting for so long for this moment. I’ve dreamed about it for nearly two decades and even during the years of writing without any visible publishing progress, I couldn’t stop thinking about holding a completed and published novel in my hand. And today is finally…
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Navigating AI in the Publishing World
How to navigate a rapidly changing publishing world as a writer Maybe you saw the recent publishing controversy that’s been sweeping social media lately. The horror novel Shy Girl by Mia Ballard was recently pulled from bookshelves by its publisher after accusations of AI use put the author’s integrity into question. Speculation immediately swirled as…
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Stop Aging Up YA Characters. It’s Ruining the Genre.
Teens deserve books written for them. It often starts with a small shift that doesn’t seem like it should matter. A character is aged up slightly. The tone becomes a little older. The situations become a little more adult. On paper, these changes might feel minor, but in Young Adult fiction, these small shifts can…
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My Story “Elrida” Published in Seasons of Romantasy: Winter
“Elrida” is now available! I’m late in announcing this on the blog. What can I say, life’s been busy. BUT… My short story, “Elrida” is published in the Seasons of Romantasy: Winter anthology! This might just be the best short story I’ve ever written. It’s got magic, a snarky protagonist (and even snarkier horse) a…
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Boost Your Writing With These Must-Know Literary Devices
Discover how imagery, metaphors, and other essential techniques bring your words to life. “I could never write like that.”“I’m just not a literary writer.” If I had a dollar for every time a friend, student, or fellow writer said something like this… well, I’d at least be able to buy myself a new notebook. This…
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What to Do When Your Draft Isn’t Working
A Writer’s Guide to Not Spiraling Every writer has a few moments in the drafting or revising process where they stop, stare at the manuscript, and think, Oh no. This is a disaster. You know the moments I’m talking about: your plot veers off in twelve directions, your characters are suddenly acting like they have…
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Big News! My Book is Being Published!
A Dream Years in the Making (and the Moment It Became Real) It’s a Dream Come True!I was in the middle of teaching when my watch buzzed and I saw the flash across the screen of the email. It was first offer on the book I had spent months (years!) working on. I temporarily forgot…
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5 YA Books to Add to Your Summer TBR
Add these clean YA books to your summer TBR list! Ah summer. The perfect time to head to the beach or the lake with a cooler full of snacks and a stack of fun and flirty novels. As a writer and reader of YA, you know I love a swoony teenage romance. They’re so fun…
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Tales, Scales, and Tiaras Cover Reveal!
Dragons, Griffins, Chimeras, Unicorns… Join us on a royal adventure filled with epic quests, brilliant banter, and plenty of swoon-inducing romance. I’m am so excited to share this with you! The Tails, Scales, and Tiaras anthology releases this summer from Quill and Flame Publishing House, and I’m so excited to be a part of it!…
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