Happy Thursday! After weeks away, I am finally back with a long overdue update. This is actually not the update I was setting down to write, but I started rambling and lost the thread. So, I’m circling back to cut down said rambling and give you a different update entirely! This month, developmental edits have…
I Hated My Name
I hated my name. It wasn’t feminine enough and the spelling was all wrong. I get called Sir to this day if there is no photo attached to the email I am sending and in the fourth grade it got mistaken for “Jason Mason” and all of my classmates laughed at me. One day I…
Grief and the Great Big Goodbye
I think I was eight years old when I experienced my first real loss. It was my great grandmother. I remember she had one room in her house that was full of stuffed toys she had collective over a lifetime and there at the end she used to let us take one home each time…
Hyperfixation and a Welcome Invitation
Happy Thursday! I forgot to post my usual weekly update on Sunday, but I also didn’t have much to update on until today anyway. My current work in progress and hyperfixation, White Rabbit, is moving right along. I’d say I’m within ten thousand words or so of being finished with the first draft! I am…
First Pages
Welcome to the first official update since launching my new author website! I’m so glad you’re here. This week I got some very exciting news! In March, I entered the first page of my manuscript for Get Ready With Me into a contest. It had been enough time that I had sort of forgotten about…
Excited to be Here
Hello Friends, Welcome to my first official blog post on my new author website! I have moved all of my articles over from Substack, you can scroll my home page to find them if you’re new here and interested in seeing where it all started. Setting up this website was a labor of love. I…
Quiet on the Western Front
Happy Sunday Subscribers! This morning I told myself I was going to post my weekly update earlier in the day. Then I sat down to write it approximately five times and kept getting sucked into other things. Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Such is the life…
Imaginary People
Happy Wednesday! Halfway through another week and time for my third installment of writing poetry from the POV of my four main characters. If you missed the first two, they’re titled Saturn and Things That Stay, go check them out! Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This…
Rejection, Waiting, and Doing it Anyway
Happy Sunday! As promised, my weekly update on the writing/publishing journey. Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. On the Get Ready With Me front, I have ten total queries still outstanding—one being the full request I got from a Threads pitch event. After weeks of silence, I…
Glass Hearts
Happy Friday Friends, Today has been a rough one. I woke up this morning to my sweet eight year old daughter devastated because her pet fish died. She has the sweetest, kindest soul and my heart is broken for her. I wrote this poem for her and how it feels raising and being an empath….