1. You give me a book or a movie with a protagonist writer (or photographer, for that matter) and I'm all in. Just one of the many reasons that I'm thoroughly enjoying my first Jessica Hawkins read, Yours To Bare.  2. It's been a good week. The hubby and I got out on the jet ski for the first time this season, we...

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Image source 1. I spent some time (a little too much time) scrolling through the Instagram account of an author I admire. I went all the way back to the beginning. At first I was dismayed. I thought: my feed will never look like this. I’ll never be able to write as quickly as her and share so many new book release posts....

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1. I finished reading a book this week that blew me away in the best kind of possible way. Write Naked: A Bestseller's Secrets to Writing Romance & Navigating the Path to Success—(phew! That was a mouthful)—was just what I needed to read. Ever since I decided to re-write Finding Lily, I’ve been struggling with how to truly give it life. It was...

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1. I’m a strange person; this is no secret. I was that kid in school who spent more of her time bent over a notebook journaling or writing short stories. I was painfully shy, wildly unpopular and the recipient of a whole lot of bullying. When I started College I thought the best thing to do would be to hide those parts of...

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So, I've been bad about posting my book lists each month. When the writing is flowing, everything else seems to fall to the wayside. But I'm not complaining one....tiny... bit. I'm actually surprised that I got through four books (and started reading a fifth) this month. As always, comment and let me know what you're reading, or what I should be reading. Or...

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