Crossed Souls, the first book in my Twisted Soul Magic series, was my first foray into paranormal romance. This was a story that started out in my head as something so much different than it came out when I wrote it. It also was my first attempt at writing reverse harem, and y’all… that shit is hard.
Read MoreI’ve been on a bit of a Siobahn Davis kick lately and so I happily took a deep dive into her Rydeville High series this past weekend. Now, I haven’t finished the entire series, but this one’s set up a little different than your usual series. It’s a combination of a trilogy with cliffhanger endings and then jumps to some standalones for the other characters.
Read MoreHave you noticed the new cover trend in steamy romance? I’ve been watching it for a while, but this year in particular it’s really moving away from the shirtless guy cover and into the object/text based covers. I really love the creativity that comes along with these, and as much as I loved the ones I was seeing, it was still scared to pull the trigger on using an object cover for my own books.
Read MoreEvery book I write, my actual process of writing the book changes just a little bit. Well, I guess that’s not true—sometimes it changes a LOT.
Read MoreThe Emerald Hills Elite series has been on my mind for a looong time. I don’t know if reverse harem academy books are still popular or not, but they’re a trope I love to read (and have loved to read for a while now). I’ve really itched to write my own story, put my own spin on the subgenre and so that’s where the idea for this series came from.
Read MoreNow that Hostile is finished and out in the wild, it’s time for me to start working on my next project. I thought it would be fun to update you as I go, giving you a behind the scenes look into my process of plotting and writing the first book in the Emerald Hills Elite series.
Read MoreWhen I start brainstorming a series, that can look different every time. For Crossed Souls, it started with the characters—Willa specifically. I saw her initially as a sort of cupid-like character who was destined to help people find love while also being a person who couldn’t find it herself. She’d never known what being in love felt like, and was a really lonely person.
Read MoreExciting news! The entire Ruined Rockstars series is now available on paperback!
Read MoreI’ve been a big fan of reading reverse harem for a while now. At this point, it makes up about 98% of what I read in my free time, so because it’s my favorite, I wanted to try my hand at writing a series. I’ve had a lot of ideas about what my first RH series should be, but Twisted Soul Magic wouldn’t leave me alone, so it’s first up (and for the record I have about five other series’ in the works for the future that I can’t wait to get to.
Read MoreWay back when when I started writing the Shadow Phoenix series (with Finding Zen), I had no idea about series planning or how I wanted my author brand to look and feel. I knew a bit about marketing and branding from the business I ran before I became an author, but this whole author gig was totally new to me.
Read MoreIt’s our favorite feisty redhead’s birthday today, and in honor of that (and submitting the final manuscript of Chased!) I wanted to gift you a sneak peek of her story. Keep reading for an Indy x Montana scene…
Read MoreWriting isn’t easy.
There, I said it.
But really, it’s hard. I don’t know in which ways you might think it’s difficult to write a book—maybe you think getting 100,000 words down is the hardest part, or maybe it’s putting yourself out there for people to judge something you spent months creating.
Read MoreI thought it’d be fun to update you along the journey of writing my current books. So, what am I actively writing?
Read MoreAs you may or may not know (depending on when you came across my writing), I’ve never been crazy about ANY of the versions of the Shadow Phoenix covers. None of them really screamed “ROCK STAR” at me the way I wanted, but I had no idea how to make that happen.
Read MoreWell, it’s official: I’ve lost my mind.
Yup, I’m about to dive into writing two books at the same time.
Read MoreSo… I have a project I’m absolutely DYING to write. BUT, I’m one of those people who will start a million things and never finish a single one if I don’t force myself to do it. It’s why I only write one book at a time (and one series at a time).
Now that the Hollywood Guardians series is underway (and there are seven books planned in total), I feel a little bit more comfortable branching out into a passion project of mine.
Read More…cue maniacal laughter.
I’ve probably talked about it before, but there are two types of writers (and potentially more in the form of hybrids of the two types but we’ll ignore them for now): Plotters and Pantsers.
Now, “Pantsers” are the type of people who fly by the seat of their pants. Get it? Ha. Ha.
Read MoreThis whole writing journey started for me with a song and an idea to explore what it would be like to be a rock star and also finding love. At the start of my writing career, I had no idea about HOW to actually write. I mean, sure, you can sit down to your computer and just start typing, and a lot of authors make that work for them.
I am not one of those people.
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