FALLOUT GIRL and Using Fiction to Witness Mental Illness
:: It was very important to me to have the reader be in my hero’s POV when she is in crisis or witnessing her mental illness. Update 3/26/2018: Fallout Girl is available for Pre-Order now. Here it is on Amazon: bit.ly/falloutgirl. I have a new novel coming out...
I Got a Wife and Kids in Baltimore Jack
:: When I was in my early twenties and living in Baltimore, I was not at my best. I was suffering, sometimes a lot. Sometimes it’s hard to think about. I lived in Baltimore many years ago. I earned my master’s in creative writing here. When I was riding in...
How To Write An Amazon Book Review
:: Your words are as important to an author as an author’s words are to you: Please leave a book review. Authors depend on book reviews written by readers. If you read a lot of books, and you don’t know this yet, you can read about why here, and here, and...
How To Write A Holiday Love Story
:: When my publisher told me they wanted me to write a love story set around the winter holidays, and “Oh, it needs a happy ending”—I felt like I was standing barefoot and under-supplied at the bottom of a very tall, very rocky mountain that I had to climb if I ever...
Poem: Shower
:: “I love teaching poets. They never waste words.” When I was working on my master’s in creative writing, I took poetry courses too. In fact, when I was an undergraduate, my first creative writing courses were in poetry. Later, one of my favorite...01. About Me
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