The Insecure Writer’s Support Group Wants You to Make Your Characters Flawsome
As in: flawed, yet awesome. No one wants to read boring perfection.
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Book Tropes: Why Choose? Both is Good
Have you heard that old joke: Honey, the secret to happiness is to find you a man who’s good around the house. Find a man who takes you out on dates and has a good time. Find a man who’s good in bed. Find a man who shares your values in life. And most importantly of all, don’t let them find out about each other! It’s a joke, of course, but there is a sub-genre of romance that exists on…
The IWSG and 15 Sparkly Fun Fail Safe Ways to Get People to Buy Your Book, Guaranteed*
*By “Guaranteed” I mean “I have no idea, take these suggestions at your own risk, this list is just for fun, please don’t sue me when it isn’t fail safe and doesn’t work”* The Insecure Writer’s Support Group meets monthly, online, so you can air out and dismiss your anxieties in the comfort of the group setting where we are always on your side. If you’d like to join, go here. Our generous co-hosts this month are PJ Colando, Ronel Janse…
The Great Reading Wrap-Up of 2025
In the grand tradition of the new year, let’s do some tidying, list making, and wrapping up the previous year. Number Of Books I Read in 2025: A respectable 66 new books. My goal for the past few years has been 80, so we’re creeping up little by little to that goal. I don’t want to startle it. We’re sneaking up on it slowly. Number of Re-Reads: at least 80 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and probably more. Surrounded by horrors as we have…
The Great Blogging Wrap-Up of 2025
Lets get to some maths for the year. Although I am terrible at all types of maths, I still genuinely have a lot of fun breaking my blogging year down in stats. I acknowledge that this is boring for anyone other than myself or other book bloggers. But my philosophy there is Bore Big or Go Home, so on that note, other bloggers if you’re interested the 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, and 2017 breakdowns are linked. 2020 was a lot of…
The Social Media Beast Requires Regular Feeding: an IWSG Post
It’s the first Wednesday of September, that blessed time of the -BER months when things are getting cooler, leaves are beginning to think of their change, and the mosquitos are almost back in the hell from whence they sprang. Let us celebrate together by posting for the IWSG! If you’d like to join the group, the sign up form can be found here. This glorious September, our co-hosts are Kim Lajevardi, Natalie Aguirre, Nancy Gideon, and Diedre Knight. Tell them thank you by stopping…
My Favorite Books With a Lovely Yellow Hue
My favorite color is yellow. It’s the color of sunshine, hope, happiness. It’s an energetic color and it makes me feel positive. It’s also summer, which makes the sunshine even more appropriate. Just because I feel like it and it’s sunny, here’s a list of books with my favorite color on the cover for you! All photos and descriptions are from Goodreads. 1. The Girl With All The Gifts This one was such a great subversion of the zombie trope,…
My Favorite Couples in Love
In honor of Valentine’s Day: Fictional Couples This topic speaks to me on a deep, personal level as an author of romance. I read all around the genre spectrum. From horror to sci-fi to fantasy, with a short detour in middle grade and a light stop at young adult. Set me loose in a bookstore and I’m hopping between shelves like a monkey on banana-based amphetamines. But there’s one subplot which will always catch and keep my attention. If a book,…
The Insecure Writer’s Support Group Finds Feet of Clay
It’s the first Wednesday of 2025, which must mean it’s Insecure Writer’s day. It’s our day to support, encourage, and uplift each other. If you’re interested in joining but haven’t taken the leap yet, the link to sign up is here. If you’re more social media inclined, our Twitter handle is @TheIWSG and hashtag is #IWSG. As always we have generous co-hosts donating their time to keep us all on track. This month our co-hosts are Rebecca Douglass, Beth Camp, Liza @…
The Great Reading Wrap-Up of 2024
In the grand tradition of the new year, let’s do some tidying, list making, and wrapping up the previous year. Number Of Books I Read in 2024: A somewhat respectable 55 new books Number of Re-Reads: at least 55 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and probably more. My reading goal is usually 100 new-to-me books, and as many re-reads as my heart desires. Turns out in 2024 my heart desired more predictable books than unfamiliar new ones. It has to do with my neurodivergent…