100 Page Mark
I hit 100 pages in Honeymoon Period on Friday. So excited!
Kara Cinnamon Series #4
It’s official. The fictional friends are talking to me again. The new manuscript is on its way with sixteen pages after three days. I’m fairly confident in the title but want to give myself time with the project just to make sure it’s the best fit. Still lots more research and writing exercises to do, but I’m […]
Spontaneity: The Yearlong Resolution
We all know the pros and cons of New Year’s resolutions (mine is at least one blog post a month). Ditto on recognizing the importance of self-improvement, organizing, and setting new benchmarks being a quarter of the battle. The rest is actually doing. Yeah, yeah, Amy. What’s your point? Regardless of your resolution success rate, […]
Finding Yourself in Others
Once again I’ve fallen behind with posting, but my father’s passing this summer does provide a compelling excuse. Memorial Day weekend I was on the cusp of starting my next manuscript and anticipating a writer’s police academy (#WPA2016). By June, I found myself signing a release for emergency brain surgery to save my dad’s life. […]
Stranger than fiction
We’ve all heard the cliché “stranger than fiction” but what happens to an author when people we’ve created or places we’ve dreamt up actually come to life? From my experience – it’s freaky weird. I had three such incidents with my first manuscript – To Make You Mine. First, I named a major character Ben […]
How to get a job
Being a starving artist in search of part-time work I found myself interviewing at the local grocery store this past spring. The manager asked about my writing career/trek toward publication before getting to the mandatory canned questions. First can out of the box: “Name a profession in which organization is key to the employee’s success.” I thought […]