February 27, 2016
My First Vlogging Attempt
Anytime I see the word ‘vlogging’ I automatically think of ‘flogging’. BUT I had my first official author event of 2016 last night and it was late-ish by the time I returned home so rather than blog about it and have to do the compulsory editing, etc., I decided to try my hand at vlogging…
January 30, 2016
Author-ly Updates
It feels like forever since I last posted here! But I have some seriously good excuses, the main one being that last week I finished writing another book!! And since I did all 125,000 words of it in the space of 26 days (yikes!!), I’m hoping you’ll accept my apologies for the lack of blogging updates in that…
January 13, 2016
Fresh Off The Press!!!
Guess what arrived on my doorstep today? My publishers sent me a whole box of books!!! That’s right! RAELIA, the second book in The Medoran Chronicles, is officially printed and ready for release on March 23rd! The countdown is onnnnnnn!!!!
December 31, 2015
The Necessary Discipline Of Writing
I wrote over 11,000 words today! If you read my Facebook post earlier, you’ll know some of those words were spent trudging through a particularly challenging scene, which wasn’t all that much fun. Here’s an honesty moment: I desperately considered giving up and binge-watching repeats of The 100. BUT… I didn’t do that. Instead, I…
December 27, 2015
How To Write A Novel
For this post I’ll be giving some insight into my novel writing process in answer to a request that came from Jenna after my ‘Christmas Present From Me To You‘ offer (*waves* Hi, Jenna!). Writing a book—or anything—is a funny thing, mostly because no two authors have the same technique. Sure, there are a number of processes we all…
December 18, 2015
Christmas Present From Me To You
It’s come to my attention that different readers of this blog like different things. I know, I know, that’s not such a groundbreaking revelation. But bear with me for a second here. Some of you like reading about my writing escapades. About the random things going on in my own writing world. My crazy, often uncooperative characters….