The thing to know about Productivity is that it will always be faced by Resistance. By "the Fear" of success, by impostor syndrome, by...

The destruction of the Republic is planned as a side note to the ongoing conflict of the First Order hunting Finn and Rey for the map to Luk

We don't need to be the heroes out to save the world to make a difference in it. There's no dragon to fight in a battle you make up

When you tell someone that you like to read (as all writers should, and usually do), their first response is usually somewhere along the lines of, “Oh! What’...

I've been told for most of my life that I am a strong, confident young woman. This is not true. If I appear strong, it is because I am afraid of looking weak...

I am sharing this story with you, no matter how embarrassing and shameful, because I believe that all of us have something, large or small,

What is the goal of college? Is it to create well-rounded, thoughtful adults? To teach youthful teenagers the responsibilities and sorrows o

One of my New Years resolutions for 2018 is not to pick favorites anymore, so instead of declaring which of these vastly different books was

The Last Jedi had a lot of great things going for it, including a wonderfully diverse cast of main characters, a female protagonist, and sev

November has been a busy month! Rather than a regular blog post this week, though I have several in progress, I thought I'd give a quick update on what's goi...

Hello all! I have a few blog posts in process, but this week I want to talk about something I'm really excited about: One of my favorite self-published autho...

In the last few years, I have made many huge changes in my life. Some of them were difficult, but some we far worse agonizing over the decision rather than j...

No matter what their ethnicity, children can learn about a real world full of diverse life experiences through diverse representation in the

It is difficult to know when to put off laundry one more day so that you can get that chapter down that's been rattling around inside yo

Quite literally two days before I was scheduled to start revisions, I thought of a new aspect to my main character which would completely ch

Growing up, you are constantly told how special you are, how you can do anything, be anything, and possibly touch the moon if you jump high enough. In high s...

When most people think of a witch, they imagine wicked old witches who eat children and put curses on people. A witch is the shadow across a moon, the evil i...

These are the things which help me to "just keep swimming" and writing my heart out. Hopefully one of them will be inspirational f

This week I am going to talk about something I find highly embarrassing, but which too many of us deal with to ignore. Student Loans. *runs for cover, hides ...

I have recently been involved in feminist critiques of children's and young adult novels, where it is far too easy to point out what is wrong or failing to l...