Revisions: What To Do?!

This will be a short post, as I just got my manuscript back from my developmental editor, and I am contemplating incinerating it. I had hoped I could make some revisions … and then I could move on to the next phase of the self-publishing process. And yes, I can...

Why I Heart Romance Novels: Happy Endings

“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.” –Amanda Cross I have always been a hopeless romantic, so it surprising that I didn’t actually pick up a romance novel until I was about twenty. My aunt accidentally left a novel by...
How Traveling and History Have Inspired My Writing

How Traveling and History Have Inspired My Writing

I am a writer, which for me I define like so: someone who enjoys putting words on paper and telling a story. I have been writing since I learned to construct sentences. And when I switched my major in college from English to Economics (temporary moment of insanity) to...

Why write is like asking me: why dream?

I am new to the world of blogging and self-publishing, but I am not new to writing. I wrote my first novel in third grade–something about aliens … but it was always my dream to become a successful author. I would tell my parents, “I will be an author...