Boy meets girl. Girl smiles at boy. Boy spends more time talking with girl. Both appear quite interested. Elise is oh-so-proud of herself because she's the one who introduced them to each other. I have personally never been a successful matchmaker (the above mentioned couple is no exception, I'm sorry to say). Have you ever tried to set up two friends? One thing that almost always…
My friends, this is the last day of this exciting promotion and I wanted to be sure you heard the news: Moonlight and Oranges is currently FREE as a Kindle download on Amazon.com and it's moving like hotcakes. I'm pleased to announce that it hit the Top 20 list in the Romance category, and I only anticipate it will keep climbing. Get your Kindle copy today…
IT'S A CONTEST! In celebration of Valentine's Day, I am hosting a contest, starting today, from February 9 - February 14. Five lucky winners will receive a FREE autographed copy of Moonlight and Oranges! THE RULES: There are three ways to enter to win a copy of Moonlight and Oranges - don't forget, you're welcome to enter all three! 1. Share the Love on Twitter: In honor…
I was seven and a half when my little sister came into the world. She had beautiful big eyes, which we both get from our dad and she was mostly definitely a feisty one. I remember teaching her how to snuggle, because her reaction to hugs was to push me away as hard as she could. Before she learned to talk, we all thought she was practicing…
In which I jump into a hypothetical time machine... I'm honored to announce that today I'm featured on Tess Hardwick's blog, answering the question "What advice would you give your 20-year-old self?" for her 20 Thursday blog series. I talk about college, boys, my word skills that I've used for good and for evil, and my need to that I'm loved over and over again (I seem…
It's harder to answer this question than it seems: What did I used to love doing? It's funny how things we love, things that brought us life or joy or a feeling of passionate purpose become things that we use the past tense to talk about. Did. Used to. Remember when we... Sometimes it's hard to remember because we've created a new default way of having fun. …
Every writer gets them. No one can escape them. No one, ever, has been brilliant and perfect enough of a writer with universal tastes that everyone agrees with to evade the reality of bad reviews, angry comments, or rude messages. Rest assured, this is not a rant about a horrible review I just received. I'm actually quite OK with people publicly declaring if they don't like something I wrote. (In fact, if everyone agreed that…
I don't care how brilliant or inspired my writing is on any given day, it loses steam if I'm doing everything on my own. There's something indescribable about sitting right next t to someone while I work that transforms me, my work, and my time into something of increased worth. Whether it's cleaning house side by side, brainstorming creative ideas together, or just voicing fears out loud to…
I have a long-standing relationship with Greek myths and retelling them. Moonlight and Oranges is one of many projects I've created to interweave myth and story and character. I explained my "mythical obsession" on the Owl Tell You About It blog this week.
A friend of mine made a recent facebook post that said: This might just be me, but the longer I live, the more it seems that insecurity stemming from a lack of real love is responsible for most of the world's problems. Wow. We all know if we watch the news that there is a constant state of flux for global problems all around us. When…