Madeleine Rex totally inspired me to do this. She’s about the coolest teenager I know. So here are 20 things I want to say to people who shall remain nameless. Pretty sure I’ll never say any of this stuff. 🙂 1. I am fairly certain you married a succubus. 2.  Your shoes reek! Get them […]

With writing comes lots of staring off into space, and nail biting, and waiting. So when I have writer’s block or I’m taking a break from a book (so necessary!), I try to catch up on reading (any aspiring writer has homework!) and try to get out and see what’s going on in the neighborhood. […]

So my crazy friend and Survivor-watcher Emily (@emilytastic on twitter) is constantly talking about how she loved Hanson more than anything in high school. Now she’s uploading scans of her high school journal on her blog. I especially enjoy her stories about how the evil biology teacher ridiculed her in front of the whole class […]

So I’m finally going to sit down tonight and start mapping out a new novel, an idea that came to me after some idiot broke into my car, busting the window, thus making a big ole mess of glass. And the idiot didn’t even steal anything! ….But I digress. So as I’m standing outside with the […]

Yes, I’ve been AWOL from my website for a while. I’m a better Twitter-er than I am a blogger. Not sure why, but I’m sure it has something to do with me being an instant-gratification-kind-of person (e.g. I’d rather go buy a cup of coffee than wait while it brews, and by the time the […]

Best opening ever? Imperial battlecruiser fills the screen as it crawls forward in space. Star Wars! Most agents ask to see the first five to ten pages of a manuscript, but if you don’t grab them on page one, they probably won’t keep reading. In my opinion, the first sentence is the most crucial line […]