I love music. Listen to it daily and always have it playing when I am writing. There isn’t much that I don’t listen to and even if I have preconception that I’m not going to enjoy a certain type, I will give it a chance to see if it…
Hey there – First off, everyone’s writing process is different, so some writers need silence. I get it. But I’m not one of those writers. Music was my first love! I was a professional opera singer before I ever wrote my first book. I was on my way to…
After attending the RARE Edinburgh book signing, my husband and I journeyed north of the city to the tiny town of Auchenblae. During our week visit, we met a man, John, who raises Scottish Coos (Cows). His coos are raised to be shown in competitions, and Ilsa is his…
As a novelist, I have a stunning confession: I didn’t always like to read. It wasn’t until late middle school, when I was reading Stephen King’s IT, that I finished more pages for school than I was supposed to – and it wasn’t because I enjoyed it, either. It was…
I mean…how could I not be? I’m a romance writer (and reader) who loves plots that move hot and fast, feisty heroines with sass, heroes with heart, a dash of snark, and oodles of HEAs. It says so right in my author bio. And guess what, K-Dramas have…
For LGBTQIA+ people, representation in media is constantly expanding. I hesitate to use the words “forward” or “come a long way” – because there’s no such thing as “forward” and “backward” when queer, trans, and other ways of being outside the colonial “norm” have existed forever. It’s more of a…
When I first started in publishing around ten years ago, there wasn’t a lot of queer representation. There were hardly any F/F books in stores, especially not any about bisexual or pansexual teens that I had access to. And certainly none whatsoever about queer characters of color, let alone…
A number of sapphic ships were critical to my coming out—Clexa from The 100, Wayhaught from Wynonna Earp, Golly from Rookie Blue, Vauseman from Orange is the New Black. At that time in my life, seeing queer relationships normalized on TV was such an important thing for me, especially…
The early days of the pandemic hit me hard. I live with OCD and anxiety. Anytime there’s a hint of “doom” in the news, I panic, imagining all the worst potential outcomes and perseverating on them. Everyone told me it would be fine, things would blow over and when…