Hello, dear author. So you’ve wandered into the wild, woolly world of book reviews. You have a book out, or many books out, or a book coming up, and reviewers are already talking about it.[…]
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Twenty Notes to the Anxious, Melancholy Writer.
Last night I was talking to a few writer friends about the head-demons that can completely devour any and all will or ability to write. You know those things: those nagging doubts and insecurities and[…]
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Just About Done: On Speaking Out vs. White Retaliation
I have just about hit my break point. Y’all know I talk about POC and LGBTQIA issues. Constantly. Recently even more so because it’s become important to me to be able to speak. To be myself. To[…]
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Writing a Queer Heroine in a Heterosexual Romance.
I’ve been thinking about writing this for a while, but since it’s #BiVisibilityDay, I figured no better day to tackle it than today. In all the things people have said about my latest novel, The Lost,[…]
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Saying “thank you.”
I’m going to admit something right now that most authors won’t say out loud. It’s bad form, when you’re supposed to keep a positive face on everything and always be bright, be chipper, be happy,[…]
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Because sooner or later, everybody asks why.
Dammit. Now people are looking at me. Guess I gotta blog. So I’m already getting about the response I expected, ranging somewhere between “Holy shite, there’s a cock in the henhouse, is he lost?” to[…]
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