It was a week full of words and planning for me. Grab your favorite beverage and let's talk about it! I'm a little over a month into my new job as the garden writer for Love to Know, and things are going wonderfully. After so many years of the chaos of a freelance life and … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up: Books, Notion, and Lilacs

I love a good reading challenge.  They take me back, I think, to my favorite part of elementary school, which entailed reading through a list of books and getting an award (remember those Pizza Hut free pizza coupons?) or getting to try out for the Battle of the Books team (which I made, and it … Continue reading Summer Reading Time!

Fashion consultant Kiki Forbes is... not in a good place. Set up on a string of disastrous blind dates by her well-meaning best friend, suddenly unemployed, facing the prospect of working as a nanny for her sister (think Bridezilla crossed with a deranged version of Martha Stewart), she leaps at the chance to work as … Continue reading Review: Coffee Girl by Sophie Sinclair

It was a very good reading week for me. I read two novels and started two more. Both of those I finished were 5-star reads for me... Which leads me to a bit of a tangent. Looking through my GoodReads shelves, I have lots of four and five star ratings for the books I've read. … Continue reading Friday Reads: Contemporary Romance Obsession Edition

IT'S HAPPENING! Two of Swords is almost here, and the second it's live on Amazon, I will be shouting it from the rooftops. This book had so many false starts, so many scrapped drafts... a year's worth of them! But I have a book now that I'm proud of and I'm so excited to share … Continue reading Cover Reveal: Two of Swords

May was a whirlwind. But I'm trying to keep track of the things I enjoyed each month, both the big and the small, because it's so easy to lose sight of those things when life is crazy. Which mine is. All the time... So in no particular order, here are the things that made me … Continue reading Things I Loved This Month

This is the first of my weekly writing updates, and I'm happy to report that Two of Swords is moving along pretty well! I struggled with it a bit and came to realize that the problem was my outline. I was trying to force Moira and company into a script that was starting to feel … Continue reading Writing Update: Two of Swords (and a snippet!)

Is it just me, or did everyone else feel like they aged about 5 years during January too? Such a loooooong month. But we've made it through. It's a new month, and we're that much closer to spring in my neck of the woods (she says as she sits two feet away from the woodstove, … Continue reading January: What I Read, Watched, and Listened To

One of the things I look forward to at the end of every month is reading Anne Bogel's "what I learned this month" posts, an idea that she got from Emily P. Freeman, whose blog I also enjoy reading. I've wanted to start doing the same for a while, and it seems like a good … Continue reading Five Things I Learned in January

It's here. It's really, finally here and I am so excited to share Light's Shadow with you. All of the miscellaneous drafts, all of the chapters I wrote, thinking they'd make the book better, and then deleted upon edits, all of the trying to make sure I brought this multi-generational story to a satisfying end... … Continue reading Sophie + Calder (Today is Light’s Shadow day!!)