It's that time again! Halloween approaches, and just around the corner is National Novel Writing Month or NaNoWriMo! Whether you're planning on writing your entire novel or just using NaNo to create a habit of writing (always a great idea), I've got a round-up of posts that can help put you in a great starting position. Here, we have my Preptober series, a four-part hot-to prep your book and get yourself ready to meet those daily work counts! I cover everything from getting s

Dear Readers, I hope you're enjoying CIRCUIT FAE 4: NEMESIS! It's been getting great reviews! I'm very grateful to all the readers, bloggers, and reviewers for loving NEMESIS and calling it "a rollercoaster ride of emotions!" But what's up next? Will Syl and Rouen get their happily ever after? Or will old enemies arise to tear them apart again? Find out in CIRCUIT FAE 5: EIDOLON, launching on March 3, 20201! DESCRIPTION Long live the Faerie Queens! Syl Skye, Queen of the Summ

Dear Readers, If you're anything like me, you're all about the music. Whether you're writing, working out, getting work done, or just hanging out, the right soundtrack can make all the difference! With the launch of CIRCUIT FAE 4: NEMESIS on September 10, I'm gearing up to share some of my very best playlists for all my projects. The project I'm the most excited for is my new work-in-progress (WIP) for book one of the series to follow CIRCUIT FAE. It's so fresh and shiny new,

Dear Readers, After a week off for good behavior (I typically don't blog in 5th weeks of the month), I'm back with a cool outlining hack for writers. If you're anything like me, your outline is probably about one-third as long as your actual book. No, but really. *stares in plotter* I do a full chapter-by-chapter outline for each book, revising it in between drafts. I usually have everything from GMCs to worldbuilding notes to actual dialogue in my outline, so it can be chall

Dear Readers, Just a few quick announcements in CIRCUIT FAE news today. First up, I've officially finished with CIRCUIT FAE 4: NEMESIS! Huzzah! After one more quick proofing read, I'll be sending it out to my publisher to be formatted, so it can look all pretty and badass on release day: September 10, 2019! Second up, soon (read: at an indeterminate date in the near future), THE CIRCUIT FAE series will come out of Kindle Unlimited for a time. I wish I could list an accurate d

This past weekend, I returned to my MFA alma mater, Seton Hill University in Greensburg, PA, for the In Your Write Mind 2019 writers' conference. I got to reconnect with old friends like guest of honor, Mark Oshiro, as well as attend a Mystery Dinner written by our very own Victoria Thompson. Seton Hill is more than just the place I got my MFA. It was the first place where other writers told me my work had promise. For the first time ever, I got feedback on my writing, and pe

Hello my pretties! I'm super excited to be returning to my alma mater, Seton Hill University in Greensburg, PA, for the In Your Write Mind conference this weekend. I'll be doing a panel on Making a Writing Career, and yes! Signing all the books on Saturday night at the SHU Performing Arts Center (PAC). I'll have all the CIRCUIT FAE books with me, so come chat me up, hang out, browse the other awesome author tables, get your book signed, and/or goob about Frozen 2 or my curren

Dear Readers, in honor of Pride Month, I'm revealing the cover for CIRCUIT FAE 5: EIDOLON, the final chapter of Syl and Rouen's journey! I hope you love it as much as I do! DESCRIPTION Long live the Faerie Queens! Syl Skye, Queen of the Summer Court and Rouen Rivoche, Queen of the Winter Court have finally brought peace to their warring Fae realms. Or so they think. Because Rouen's mom, the Adamant Queen, is back, and she's hell-bent on ruling--no matter what the cost! She te

Dear Readers, I know many of you are also writers, so I thought I'd share one of my smaller, more subtle pieces of advice for surviving the day-to-day of the writing biz. Receiving. As always, there's a story. Back in 2011, right before I graduated from a grueling but amazing MFA program at Seton Hill University, I was deep in the daily word trenches. At the time, I was working in the medical field, 40+ hours a week at a long-term care facility. It was hard. It was depressing

Heyla Readers! I can hardly believe we're nearly halfway through the second quarter of 2019. It's been a busy year, so I thought I'd take a breath to touch base and let you all know what's going on with me and my various writing projects. First up, CIRCUIT FAE. Earlier this month, we released the CIRCUIT FAE BOXED SET, which includes MORIBUND, DERAILED, OUROBOROS, and DETHRONED, PLUS, BONUS CONTENT NEVER BEFORE SEEN! Originally, we looked into doing an iBooks special edition

DIVERSITY AND REPRESENTATION – ONE READER’S PERSPECTIVE It’s no secret that diversity is gaining ground in popular media. Our world is amazingly diverse, and marginalized people are rightfully demanding movies about protagonists like them. As part of the LGBTQ+ community and an own voices author (meaning, my protagonists and I share a marginalized lesbian identity), I can attest that we’re so ready for diverse books. So! Ready! We’re hungry for these books and to see ourselve

I know what it's like. You start out with a great idea, you've got all this momentum, you get halfway through your book, and wham! The words just stop flowing. No matter what you do, you can't recapture the shiny newness of that initial creative burst. I’ve written six books so far in THE CIRCUIT FAE series. Further, I’ve been an editor for a number of small presses, helping authors make their publishing dreams a reality. Today, I'd like to let you in on my secret of why I'm