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on writing

A Reading From My New Novel

If you're interested in watching me awkwardly read a scene from my newest novel, How To Be Someone Else, you can catch me do so over on my author blog, now. ...

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life

THE LIFE OF AN AUTHOR WITH A FULL-TIME JOB + A THREE-YEAR-OLD

Writing a book is hard work. Writing a book while working and parenting full-time is even harder.Here's a little glimpse at how most of my (work) days go.5AM -- Open my eyes (usually on my own... no alarm necessary) and try to wake up. Get out of bed, pour myself some warm water with lemon, and settle down in the dark family room...

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books

25 BOOKISH FACTS ABOUT ME

I'm kind of a sucker for these kinds of posts; where you get a little glimpse into other readers and/or writers. I'm actually surprised that it took me this many years of blogging to finally write one of my own. But, better late than never, right? Here are a few bookish things about me: I read more physical books than ebooks, simply because...

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BEING LEAH

I'M NOT GOING TO CALL IT WRITER'S BLOCK

I've gone through periods before where I'm stuck and can't seem to get anything written down. But this... this feels awfully different. Too different. Fresh off the heels of writing and publishing Losing Lily, I dove right into writing BEING LEAH, and to say that it has been an epic struggle would be an understatement. Obviously, I know how this book is going...

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books

The Book List | #3

Here's what I read in March: THE LOVE THAT SPLIT THE WORLD by Emily Henry I really did enjoy this book, and that's saying a lot, because usually I avoid the YA genre, finding it -- more often than not -- too juvenile for me (and I don't mean that it's juvenile as in bad. I just mean... not age appropriate for me)....

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