Author of spooky, fantastical and swoony fiction and blogger of high strangeness.
It’s hard to know how to categorize my first traditionally published novel (which is why I think my publisher still doesn’t really know what to do with it). It’s one part clean romance and one part legit horror. It’s a ghost story with heart. It’s also about the everlasting bond between sisters and the power […]
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There’s not a ton to report this week. I added about 5,000 words to the romance novel, and edited a couple of chapters of Revolution Part Two. I also (re)launched The Pixie and the Professor, a 99 cent short formerly known as Shiny: A Clockwork Fairytale. And then yesterday several freelance writing assignments came in, […]
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I have to admit, I had some doubts we’d get this far into the year, but we made it to October, y’all. And there was much rejoicing. And much pumpkin-flavored confection consuming. This morning, to celebrate, I had Dunkin’ Donuts Pumpkin Spice coffee in my Boo mug, and my husband broke into the Halloween candy […]
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I used to be one of those people who wear busy-ness like a badge. I was constantly very busy, and I was sure to let everybody know it. But it wasn’t just a badge declaring my importance and indispensibleness (or, if we’re being real, trying to prove my worthiness to exist fueled by insecurity and […]
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As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve recently become aware that I show all the symptoms of low cortisol and adrenal fatigue, and in researching that I’ve learned that managing stress is just as important for low cortisol as it is for too much cortisol. When I think about managing stress, I’ve always thought about emotional stress […]
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When I first started dipping my toes into the Enneagram, one of the first numbers I miss-typed myself as was a Four. Fours are famous for always feeling misunderstood, and I can identify so heavily with that feeling. As it turns out, I’m actually a Nine. What sealed the deal on my Nineness was recognizing […]
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And I’m back! I feel like a lot of things have happened since I announced my blog hiatus back in April, and yet also not much has happened at all. I didn’t get any of the things done that I said I was taking a hiatus to focus on. But a lot has taken place, […]
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Just a quick update this week, mainly to say that I’m putting this here blog on semi-hiatus until I catch up on all this editing. I’ve also put all of my writing projects on the back burner until I clear my editing backlog. Of course, my freelancing work is also ramping back up after basically […]
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“…don’t waste time looking for an easier world.” ~ Mary Oliver, Dogfish In a poem that already spoke to me, to a lot of what I’ve been dealing with over the last couple of years, this line jumped out and hit me square between the eyes. I’m so guilty of this, of constantly looking for […]
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Deliverance of the Damned revisions are well under way (that’s the sequel to Dominion of the Damned,, my Walking Dead meets True Blood post-apocalyptic zombie/vampire mashup, in case you’re new around here). I’ve got six chapters all cleaned up and shipped off to the editor (still a.k.a. my husband). The good news is that he […]
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