Many apologies for the missed spotlight last month! It's been unbelievably crazy everywhere for me, but I am making the effort to return - and fortunately, t...

Like many others, I've been practicing self-isolation. Coronavirus has hit the world hard, and my state has been hit hardest - or close to it. Which means lo...

We have a cover! We have a blurb! We have a date! My friends, we have a book for Laelia West's debut! Silver-spooned Portia Ward is getting her degree to sta...

First, if you haven't seen the front page of my website (or my Facebook or my Twitter... seriously, am I even doing this right?) I'll be in Evernight Teen's ...

Today I'm thrilled to welcome Kaitlyn Keller to my blog for an author interview! Kaitlyn is the author of Walking With Strangers and its sequel, Running With...

Emergency blog post alert! Evernight Teen has opened voting for 2019's Book of the Year! And Yearning Young is one of five nominees. I'm so thrilled and grat...

I'm screaming! If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter, you might have seen this already: I'm so stoked! Not only have people bought and fallen in love with ...

Specifically, this blog is taking a mental health day. I mentioned in this post that I'm trying to be kinder to myself and my own mental state. Unfortunately...

I have a friend. I can actually call her that these days even though we've never met in person, but we talk almost daily now. We met on a writing critique we...

It’s time for another Evernight Spotlight! Today we have Lisa Borne Graves, author of YA romance Apidae. She’s been with Evernight Teen since early 2017. You...

First, Happy New Year! I'm actually looking forward to 2020, though I'm keeping expectations low. 2018 and 2019 were not kind to me at all, so for 2020 I'm j...

Audrey Francis-Plante is a new Evernight Teen author! Her first book, Devonna, is an Editor's Pick and released October 17, 2019. Audrey writes paranormal, d...

Tomorrow is the Twitter pitch event for writers seeking agents, and I'll be participating! Specifically, I have a queer Snow White retelling I'm dying to get...

This post may be a little... politically loaded. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving in the U.S.A. In the past three years, a lot of N.American holidays feel... loaded....

Rose Phillips is a two-year Evernight Teen veteran, with the books CUTTING TO THE CHASE and COLOR ME GRAY, the latter of which is special because, in her wor...

I'm not actively participating in NaNoWriMo this month. I've tried in the past. I struggle to keep on track. Which seems odd; one manuscript I have I wrote 8...

A friend in one of my writer's groups brought up a question I found interesting: What's the difference between setting and worldbuilding? It's not something ...

*Name changed for privacy. This is not a post about writing or craft, but it is something I have strong feelings about. In the year 2019, therapy is still st...

Worldbuilding is daunting. The word itself is massive, encompasses everything from the characters to how they dress to how they behave. And for new writers -...