Please to announce I'm a FINALIST in the Indie ink Awards!!!!I have a podcast!check out my audio narration of Ancient as the Stars on your favorite podcast app!- Check out this great 5 star review of The Star-Crossed Empire by JAMReads!- Loyalty to the Max is also on Jamedi's 2025 list of anticipated reads!- (ICMYI:Continue reading "January updates: Award finals, a new podcast, and more"

Well, hello lovelies! Let me get one thing out of the way: I still love traditional publishing (even if it doesn't love me back). I truly hope to get The Shining Palais and The Counterclock Spy traditionally published, because I think they both fit that market better. But self-publishing has been a long time coming,Continue reading "Ancient as the Stars is coming out in June 2024! (and other announcements)"

This is less a "story about revpit" and more a "here's an update on the last 12 months" Previous posts about my writing journey: The Evolution of Ancient History I'm an AMM mentee! Let me flash back to one year ago. It's September 2022. I am beginning to query my third manuscript, The Shining Palais,Continue reading "I’m a #revpit winner! (AKA how I got my editor)"

(ooh, did you know WordPress has a "Stories" feature?!?)

I wrote this post a few days after announcements, but waited a while to actually publish it, because everything? About what we're doing with this mentorship? Was up in the air? Because you see, it's a long story... I don't think normally I would make a "How I Got My Mentor" post because for mostContinue reading "I AM AN AMM MENTEE!!!! (AKA How I Got My Mentor)"

I guess it's time for an FAQ! So you write? What do you write? Um..mostly science fiction/fantasy. Although I plan to branch out into romance and thriller. Isn't that for kids? Isn't that hacky stuff that anyone can churn out? Is it mostly all about white dudes flying around with lasers and/or swords? No. AndContinue reading "Oh no I just told people in my life that I’m a writer, now what?"

It's the final week! I got the awesome services of Kota Rayne. They had really nice things to say about my story, especially the two things I know are my strengths: the dialogue and the incremental lead-up to the ending. But they wanted to see a little more in terms of motivations: why is KarennaContinue reading "Writer In Motion Week 4: The Professional Editor"

I had two really awesome CPs assigned to me this week! I really enjoyed reading their stories, and their comments on mine were so helpful. The main thing they both said was that there was quite a lot of information up front in the story. I was worried about that, so it was good toContinue reading "Writer In Motion Week 3- The CP Edit"