I made it over to Vancouver Kidsbooks today and scored books for all the student reading I’m assigning this term, as a writing coach over at Quill Academy of Creative Writing. Of course, I made a few personal purchases. I’m always adding to my ever-growing to-read pile. Reading is an essential part of my writing…
Alright, I haven’t spent much time blogging this year; sharing writing tips or anything about writing in general. I could blame the pandemic or being an entrepreneur. I could blame just about everything involved in teaching writing to more than 60 students, spending a lot of my time with editors, rewrites, and navigating the query…
A Review of Cleopatra’s Daughter by Michelle Moran. I go through these phases where I read everything I can on a specific topic or region of the world. One dark Summer, I read every novel and non-fiction memoir I could find on the Armenian genocide. Another, I read every gothic horror novel I could get…
The older I get, the more I want mid-life female protagonists in the novels I read. It’s like we don’t exist. While browsing Pinterest this morning, I came across a quote that starts, “As I get older . . .” and ends with, “Your late 20s are when you start to figure everything out.” Late…