Countdown Until The Release of The Duke of Ithaca - 6 Days!!

We’re less than 1 week away from the release date of The Duke of Ithaca! I am so excited to get this book out into the world. It’s only the first book in this new series, but I know they (the book itself and the series as a whole) will do really well! I can feel it in my skin and in my bones. Could it be just hoping? Sure. It could be. But I’m also going to do everything I can to make it a…

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COUNTDOWN TO THE RELEASE OF DUKE OF ITHACA - 11 days!!

We are officially at the 11 day mark until the release of The Duke of Ithaca! April has been a hard month, but it has also had its tremendous joys and victories. I’m still working to get accommodations at work, and while it isn’t as smooth going as I would like (a lot of people still don’t understand what accommodations even are and what they’re for), I am determined to keep pushing for it. I…

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Book Review - Thunderbird by Dorothea Lasky

This is the second or third book I’ve read by Dorothea Lasky. I first read her poetry while in grad school; one of my faculty mentors suggested her collection Milk as a study in poetry. I enjoyed that book as I enjoyed this one. Lasky’s way with words is unlike anything I’ve seen from other poets. She uses simple language, and yet her poems reverberate with meaning and depth. “People cannot keep…

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A Kiss of Glass Audiobook

It’s been a genuinely awful last couple of months — and especially the last couple of weeks — but one bright spot in all of it has been the production of my very first audiobook. The production of the audiobook for A Kiss of Glass started back in February, and I have been sitting on pins and needles every since, counting the days until the project would be done and I could release it to the…

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Spring Has Sprung in the Pacific Northwest

Hello! It’s been a while since I’ve posted. Honestly, things have been really busy and not entirely good, so I have been running on a very limited amount of energy. Firstly, some health updates: I can’t remember if I told you or not, but back around the beginning of March, I started struggling with some pretty severe insomnia. I think there were a lot of different reasons for this: the state…

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The Duke of Ithaca Cover Reveal and Virtual Book Launch

We are getting so close to the release of The Duke of Ithaca! I cannot believe that we’re even here, or that I even got this novel written! It feels like so much has happened since I started this novel, and so it feels almost surreal to say that we’re only 52 days away from releasing The Duke of Ithaca! 52 days! I’m still going through the last round of edits and then I have to register the…

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Writing Updates

It’s the first official week of March, so here’s an update on where I am with my writing projects. First up is The Duke of Ithaca, book one of my new series, The Olympic Fates Saga. The third draft is currently still with a few beta readers. Once I receive their feedback, I will be diving deep into getting the final draft completed. If you’ve never self-published a book before, then just know…

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Book Review - The Companions by R. A. Salvatore

I do not know how I can talk about this book without giving away an absolutely massive spoiler, so I will keep my spoiler-free review of this book to the beginning of this post. Once I get to where the spoilers are, please understand that if you read beyond that point and you haven’t yet read this book, the rest of the review will utterly ruin this enormous twist. Spoiler free: I am jumping a…

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Taking Leaps and Managing Expectations (and the title reveal for Olympic Fates Book 1)

This is an update from my last post. I have officially decided that I will not be publishing book one of Olympic Fates to either Kindle Vella or any other subscription platform. It was hard to make this choice because I was excited to experiment with some of the other publishing platforms out there, but the reality is that there are too many for me to research to try and find the right platform…

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Necessary Adjustments

Well, it was bound to happen at some point. As an author, especially an independent author, it’s inevitable that plans change, unexpected things come up that require me to change course. Whether it’s delaying the release of a book, taking an extended break, or choosing a new platform, things happen in this industry that you can’t anticipate, and it’s essential that authors allow themselves to be…

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Book Review - Sojourn by R.A. Salvatore

Okay, so this is the review of the third book in The Legend of Drizzt series. I do want to make a note here that if you read these books in chronological order, and I highly suggest you do, be prepared for a big difference in writing style and quality between this book and the next book in the series (which was actually the first book that Salvatore wrote in this series), The Crystal Shard. The…

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Book Review - Exile by R.A. Salvatore

This is a review of the second book in The Legend of Drizzt series. Like I said before, there are too many books in this whole series to review them all, and I can’t say that I have loved every single book, so I am picking out my favorites among the reads I have currently read, and then I will be posting them here. This book picks up where the previous left off. Drizzt has left his home in the…

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Passports and other Adultings

I officially have the appointment to start the process of getting my passport! I have been saying that I would do this for years, but I’ve never have because I couldn’t find my birth certificate. So I had to order a copy of my birth certificate from the state where I was born, and that was a long, tedious process. But, I got it in the mail this week and made my appointment to get my initial…

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More on Mental Health

Sometimes we have to give ourselves the “honest talk.” I am a firm believer in doing what we can to de-stigmatize conversations surrounding mental health. Too much of society — especially western society — ignores the rising percentages of people reporting struggles with depression, anxiety, and other conditions that impact one’s mental health, and it is precisely that refusal to acknowledge the…

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Updates and Affmirations

Last night was rough. I did not sleep well and have not slept well for about two weeks or more. My partner snores and, as much as I love him, I’m going to have to sleep on the couch for the foreseeable future because I need more than four hours of sleep every night. But, putting that aside, I am excited to announce that the rough draft of book one of The Olympic Fates Saga is almost done! It’s…

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Book Review - Sojourn by R.A. Salvatore

Okay, so this is the review of the third book in The Legend of Drizzt series. I do want to make a note here that if you read these books in chronological order, and I highly suggest you do, be prepared for a big difference in writing style and quality between this book and the next book in the series (which was actually the first book that Salvatore wrote in this series), The Crystal Shard. The…

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Book Review - Homeland by R.A. Salvatore

There’s something like 38 books in The Legend of Drizzt series and I do not intend to review them all, however there are some books that stand out among others and those I am going to review. This book is one of them and, chronologically speaking, it is the first in the series so it seems a great place to start. The Legend of Drizzt books are epic, high fantasies that take place in the Dungeons…

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