My husband keeps telling me that I need to take a mental break, maybe think about new book WIP aesthetics. After the last couple of months working my face off to get The Maiden of Gevaudan in the shape it needs to be for contests and querying, I’m a little beat. I took that break from the…
Ancient libraries are an absolute passion of mine. If I could, I would run off and live forever in one. Instead, I pretend. Magical worlds are a thing at our house. My husband, a concept illustrator, is always designing new worlds on paper or the computer. The constant themes in my head lend always to…
After my post on the Men of Maiden of Gevaudan, I wanted to come back and really let you dig into the woman power that is the crux of the novel. Their lives and motivations are why I even wanted to write it in the first place. See, the reality is that the legend of…
One of my favorite pieces of plotting out a novel is the process of casting characters for all of the parts. A dear friend of mine, BC film writer and YVR Screen Scene maven Sabrina Furminger and I once even cast an entire novel full of Canadian actors. Some may call it procrastination, we called it character study!…