I still have absolutely nothing to blog about, so I thought I would change it up and throw in an excerpt from my novel, Flight, that never made it into the final edit. Please see below my Prologue, that, for a million reasons, ended up not working for the finished product, but was still a personal favorite of mine nonetheless. Enjoy ☺ PROLOGUE It was an odd thing, dying. I had to admit; I’d never given much thought to it. But then again, what 18-year-old girl ever would. Espe

I haven’t blogged in a few days, and really, it’s cuz I’ve got nothing critical to say. Life has been crazy, I’m certainly busier than I’ve ever been… but I’ve got nothing super profound to share. I dug deep and tried to make the hamsters in my brain spin their little wheels and come up with something – ANYTHING – to blog about. But I couldn’t come up with anything, which was becoming really depressing. But then I realized, that’s ok. I don’t always have to have some words of

If you are friends with a writer, then you may have been approached at some point to read that friend’s work, and give your advice/opinion on something they have written. This blog is for you. And if you haven’t had the opportunity to do this for a friend yet, but have this opportunity in the future, this is for you too. Print it out. Save it. Keep it somewhere safe. I promise your reader friend will love you for all time for it. Dear Beta Reader, Congratulations! You have be

I was wading through the masses of emails that have been coming to me regarding Comicon this year, trying to make sense of their whole registration process and whether or not I was going to be able to get my professional badge in time, when my mind drifted back to a kinder time. A gentler time. When I could simply just fill out an actual paper form and within a few weeks, get my shiny, plastic encased Comicon badge, and be able to wander the San Diego Convention Center in rel

So this is my first blog posting. Ever. Clearly, I’m just slightly behind the times, but it’s never too late to start. For today’s blog, I wanted to give a shout out to the genre that brought me to this blessed space in the first place: Young Adult, or YA as it’s most commonly referred to. I was in my local Barnes and Noble with my 11 year old the other day, and as she was methodically looking over every YA book on the shelf, trying to figure out what her next literary conque