Category: Writing
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Aiko’s Dive: Preorder Now and Support Rescued Kitty Cats!
Aiko’s Dive is a very important book to me, but not just because I spent five years working on it. If you turn to the dedication page of the book, you’ll see this: During the course of working with my publisher on this book, both of my kitties passed away.…
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Read Chapter 1 of Aiko’s Dive for Free on My Website!
Since Aiko’s Dive is arriving on August 6th, I thought there would be no better way to celebrate than to make the first chapter of the book available to read on my website. For free! All you have to do is head right here to check it out! Hope you…
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Aiko’s Dive is Almost Here!
After months of waiting, I have exciting news: Aiko’s Dive is available for preorder and will be arriving August 6th! And now that everything is finalized on the publishing front, you can expect to see a lot more details and teases of the book in the run up to release.…
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Invisible Momentum
The last month has been really tough… I handed Aiko’s Dive off to my editor for a final pass at the end of January and have been waiting for an update ever since. In the interim, I’ve been working on revisions for my next project–one I want to have that…
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No NaNo
So, it’s been almost a month since my last blog post, which has almost everything, and absolutely nothing, to do with NaNoWriMo. Confusing, right? It’ll make sense in a second. I promise. NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. Last year, I spent the month of November putting as many…
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Letting it Stew
During NaNoWriMo 2021, I pushed out nearly 90,000 words on a now-abandoned sci-fi novel. Back then, I was firmly entranced in the mantra of never stop writing. No matter what. To that end, I pushed through rough patches in the outline and rarely made changes to the overall structure. The…
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Disconnecting Creativity from Productivity
So often, writers are told things like “you have to write every day,” or “if you’re rejected, push though the pain and write the next thing,” or “you’ll eventually get there if you just keep going.” All of these bits of advice are basically the same, with one overarching theme:…
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On Being Published
Yesterday, I responded to an agent’s tweet about how subjective publishing is; my comment got far more traction than I expected, so I wanted to expand on what I said. Because the comment only barely scratches the surface of how I’ve been feeling about writing, and publishing, lately. For the…
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On Inspiration – Remembering Worlds of Pure Imagination
Today, I wanted to do something a little bit different by sharing some of the novels that have stuck with me throughout the years. Not all of these are favorites, but each has something about them that still lingers in the back of my mind to this day. Tidbits of…
