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 authors was picked up just last month for a traditional-publishing contract with HarperTeen! Because blogging is not all about me, but also about supporting artists I admire and recommending books that I think you would all enjoy, I'd like to talk about this incredible and inspiring YA-fantasy author: Intisar Khanani! In 2015,

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

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 in the bushes, pushes out Spicer, who is fed on by ravenous FedLoan servicers* What is so embarrassing about something 44.2 million Americans are struggling with every month? We aren't supposed to talk about this $1.31 trillion dollars of debt we collectively have, but we're also not supposed to demand socialized higher e

This year, I achieved one of my proudest accomplishments: graduating with a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine, Stonecoast Program. Now, a large part of me thought once I finished this program, it would be smooth sailing through the waters of professional writing. The weather would be brutal and the waves choppy, but I had a compass and a map now, so I'd be fine. Right? Not so much. (Or at least, I think my boat needs more sails.) S