4 January 2022

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…

3 January 2022

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…

16 February 2021

Rewrites are essential. And incredibly challenging. Medieval hymns pipe through my headphones, as I pore through photos from a recent research trip to France. The search for the true Mona Lisa continues with this latest draft of Woman on the Wall. Embrace the Process of Rewrites While annoying, and, at time, incredibly soul-sucking, the rewriting…