Editing sucks. There isn’t much else to say about it. It starts out kind of ok, but after a while it makes me lose the will to live.  Even so, I thought I’d share a bit of editing with you. First off, we have the unedited first piece I wrote. I haven’t planned anything […]

Ever wondered how stories come to fruition? It took a while and a few re-writes to find a version of Settling Slowly I liked. Here’s a look into the reasoning I had for abandoning a couple of early starts of the book.

My new story (only about 4 chapters in) came from remembering that I used to watch Alaska: The Last Frontier on TV a lot. It’s a Discovery Chanel show about the Kilcher in Alaska who live on a homestead out in the middle of nowhere. They grow all their own food, hunt for meat and […]

A question that seems relevant to me today is “Why did you write Falling Fast?” Because the only YA books I’ve read that have strong, female lead characters who aren’t there simply because the author needed a romance to make the took happen, have all been fantasy books.