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Hey guys! My life has been going through some BIG changes (check out my day-to-day adventures) including a new job and *gasp* buying my first house. The last few months have seen me living out of boxes in my parents’ house while I wait to close on our new place, which has been accompanied by... Read more »

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Welcome Back! Hey everyone, it’s been a while! For those of you who don’t know, I just released my second novel Fingerprinted Hearts and I am PUMPED. I started this story pretty much exactly 8 years ago, during the summer of 2010 and it’s incredible to have it out where others can read it. Yay!... Read more »

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“OT is dynamic and evolving. It brings hope and genuine change for the better of others.” I have had the honor over the past month to work with Shoshanah Shear, author of several books on Occupational Therapy including Tuvia Finds His Freedom. I’ve sat down with her to talk a little about her story, including […]

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I recently finished a book that had me fuming. Not in the good, “oh my god, I can’t believe the author did this to my emotions!” kind of way, but in a very bad way. I won’t tell you what the book is, because as a published author myself I feel bad putting bad press […]

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It’s been awhile. I could give you a list of reasons why it’s been so long since my last post (I was out of town, there have been a lot of projects going on, etc. etc.), but the truth of it is this: the more weeks I miss, the harder it is to write a […]

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As much as I love being at home (especially now that I have a new couch), nothing gets me inspired quite like packing up my laptop, finding a cafe, ordering a drink, then settling in for an hour or two of writing. I don’t know what it is; maybe it’s that I went somewhere specifically […]

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Over the weekend, I asked my husband to set up an RSS feed for my blog so it can update live to my Goodreads and Amazon author pages. After I asked him to do this he looked at me and asked, “Why are you writing these posts?” Now, this question wasn’t rhetorical. He wasn’t implying that I’m […]

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Last night I was lying in bed, realizing that I really want a new hoodie. The big kind – pull-over, not zip up. Mostly, if not all, cotton. My old one has worn thing, and it’s time for something new to replace it. It’s a tricky standard, because I really want to be wrapped up […]

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In a little less than a month, Untold turns one! Yay! Funny story. I didn’t actually know that Untold had been published until it was about eleven days old. Isn’t that crazy? I knew the day was coming up soon, as all the final edits had been submitted and the cover had been approved. One day in […]

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I generally try to keep my blog topics to my experiences writing and publishing, but I feel like the picture would be incomplete if I didn’t explore at least a little bit of the third major part of the book creating experience: reading. If you follow me on Facebook you’ll see that I semi-regularly ask you […]

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