One year ago today, I published my first book. I have known for much of my life that I am a writer, but publishing a book was a dream, one that I thought wou...

Who doesn't like free stuff? And giveaways are so fun, like little games of chance. Here's your chance to win one of four Kindle copies of my poetry and shor...

I am so excited to announce that my next children's book has been released as an ebook and audio book, and it will soon be released in print edition, too! I w...

I can't believe how long it's been since I've posted! I went on a bit of a hiatus from my website due to being very sick and so tired at the beginning of my ...

I wanted to discuss book reviews for a moment. Readers don’t know how important they actually are (I sure didn't before I became an author!) or where to put ...

I gotta be honest here. This woman needs a nap! I have been working so hard, not only at my day job (high school teacher!), but also with my new business. An...

I finally did it! I accomplished my dream of publishing my first book. This Book Needs a Laugh, an interactive kid's book, went live on Amazon on September 1...

Writing is HARD. Anyone who tells you differently is lying. Just like in a relationship, you go through several phases within your novel relationship (becaus...

This week, I worked on the illustrations for my first children's book, This Book Needs A Laugh. It took several hours to draw all the expressions and the oth...

Part of being a writer is looking at books that you read with a different perspective. Writers read for pleasure or knowledge, sure, but we also look at book...

Twitter hosts pitch parties for writers, and I participated in my first one this past week. A pitch party is where you pitch your work to potential agents, a...

I have always had a love for reading poetry, from the nursery rhymes and Dr. Seuss books of my childhood up to the poems I taught in high school literature c...

Since last posting, I have entered a few poetry contests and have written a few other poems that I've submitted to various literary magazines. I also wrote a...

I have been working really hard to get some of the things published that I have been working on for years. Today, I submitted a play I wrote years back entit...

Someone recently asked me when I began writing. When I was six, I remember writing and illustrating a story about a few bees and some flowers. I'm sure it wa...

I was pummeled by doubts today, starting with the 9 a.m. rejection letter from an agent that honestly I was expecting to come (everyone gets some rejection –...

Today is World Book Day, a day to celebrate literacy, publication, and authors! In honor of World Book Day, I'm listing a few of my favorite works in no part...

I can't tell you how many times just in the past week that I've sat down to write something after my five year old has said a phrase or sentence to me that s...