A Book Baby is Born!

Cue the fanfare! Drop the balloons and confetti! My debut novel releases TODAY! Yep, today, December 20, 2024, Loving the Rodeo Queen drops onto Amazon and Kindle Unlimited. This is the same novel that was briefly available this summer as part of the A Summer to Remember Anthology series, with a few minor updates and…

Loving the Rodeo Queen: Available for Pre-order!

Who knew after lots of assistance and advice I’d have successfully submitted my first novel to Amazon for sale? Not this woman. When I started this journey over ten years ago, I was set on a traditional publishing route. I set out to gain an agent and submit to traditional publishing houses. In the past…

The Beauty in Starting Over

It’s not good enough. Why don’t you rethink that? Something’s missing. These phrases and more strike terror into aspiring creatives’ hearts. When we pour our ideas and hours of time and energy into a draft of a story, or a proposal, or project, we wait with bated breath and tapping fingers for those whose words…

Story Structure from the 23rd Psalm

“Nothing is new under the sun.” Soloman, the wisest man who ever lived came to this conclusion after years of chasing for that elusive something new. The Creator of all things placed in his created the desire to be like him – to build with our hands, hearts, minds, breath, and bodies – to create…

Help! Past or Present?

Help needed. Writer seeking input for WIP I’ve got my idea. I have characters. There’s a basic plot and a little over 23,000 words. There’d be more words if I didn’t have to keep going back to fix the tense of my verbs. It was never a problem before. I’ve always written in third person…