June 21, 2021 Burning Books and Scandal for Sales: Some rambling thoughts The new wave of Shifting Sands is out! You can find it here under the Shifting Sands tab, or sign up for each wave…
May 31, 2021 Social Media and Authors: Do we actually like this? Hi everyone, how’s it going? I’m having one of those semi-overwhelming weeks where many big things are coming together at once – I’m moving…
March 29, 2021 Showing My Work: A March Update The start of 2021 has been a little crazy. Actually, make that a lot crazy! This post isn’t going to hash out all of…
March 15, 2021 Lessons Learned: About Writing an “Unstable” E-book I can’t believe that it’s almost three months since Shifting Sands was first published! And you know what that means, right? Despite a catastrophic…
March 8, 2021 Author Identity and the Education Argument Hi everyone! My apologies for being MIA the past two weeks – there has been a lot going on and I had to have…
February 1, 2021 The evolution of storytelling: The Secret Garden case study I’ve been trying to read more classics lately. It’s part of my on-going writerly self-improvement journey, which includes reading more diverse fantasy, reading more authors of colour, and reading more classics….
January 25, 2021 Story Ideas 1 (a.k.a the Graveyard of Abandoned Drafts, early years) I’m not going to lie, I found myself at a bit of a loss as to what I would write on here this week….
January 18, 2021 Building an Author Brand (Part 3) In this final entry of the Building and author brand trilogy, I’m going to go a bit introspective here and talk about some of the pros and cons of author branding. Also featuring rants about authenticity and mentions of Lucy Daniels.
January 11, 2021 Memories and Perspectives: Reflecting from a writer’s POV One of my earliest memories takes place in the living room of the first home I remember. It was sunny. I was playing Barbies with my sister. I’m pretty sure Princess Jasmine’s head had not yet been ripped off in a quest for vengeance. We were both little – I was probably around three years old. Then mum came in with two old people.
January 4, 2021 Goal setting: 2020 review and goal setting for 2021 Reflecting on 2020, I failed on many of the goals I set back in January. But I also achieved so much, despite all the things working against me. Here are some of my successes and failures, along with the academic goals I’m setting for 2021.
