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#IGAuthorLifeJan – DAY 6 WIP
Posted on January 6, 2017 Leave a Comment
#IGAuthorLifeJan – DAY 6 WIP (Work in Progress) I’m working on Last Light . . . mainly because fans would knock down my door and burn my computer if I didn’t get the sucker done soon. I will admit . . . I LOVE this book . . . mwaa haa haa!
Brain Melt
Posted on December 10, 2016 Leave a Comment
“Puke and rally, puppy dog. We’re needed on the rooftop.” – Kian, Last Light When I first started writing the Undertow series, I had no clue what the characters would do for people. What their lives and their story would mean to people. And honestly, I had no clue the impact that the fictional world and […]
Walking the Line – Sex in YA
Posted on December 4, 2016 1 Comment
If you have ever kicked around on YA blogs, inevitably you come across posts about sex in Young Adult novels. Nine times out of ten, the post will say something about how books portray these moments, whether accurate or inaccurate, fade to black or way too much details. I’m going to address the top three […]
Inside the Concepts of a Killer Nightclub
Posted on December 3, 2016 Leave a Comment
They say news comes in two forms: Good and Bad. The Good: I’m working on Last Light. The Bad: It’s gonna be huge and my fingers are bleeding. Sometimes I’m stalled in my writing by simply needing to come out of the story to do research so I can feel my way through a setting […]
Character Craft and Writing in Reverse
Posted on January 20, 2016 Leave a Comment
I don’t plot characters. There – I admit it. I totally roll on gut instinct when I write for my cast. That said, I could never actually write them at all if I didn’t know two things: Who they were born as (personality, emotion, natural abilities, etc). How they evolved as a result of their […]
True North on NetGalley
Posted on January 19, 2016 Leave a Comment
True North has been loaded to NetGalley. The link is here for requests via librarians, teachers, bloggers, and book buyers: https://s2.netgalley.com/catalog/book/81966
Writer Woe Number 428 (or something like that): Too Many Blasted Characters
Posted on October 20, 2015 Leave a Comment
First of all, I know what you’re going to say. You’re going to say that the sheer volume of characters in my novels is my own stupid fault. That I was a doofus and basically unleashed the population of a small movie theater (on a Harry Potter premier night) into my imagination and said, “Sure […]
Pirate Booty, BABY!
Posted on August 18, 2015 Leave a Comment
I will be signing Undertow, Stormfront, and Cruel Summer at the Whydah Museum in Provincetown, Massachusetts on August 25th from noon to 3pm with Katie O’Sullivan, author of numerous titles including Descent! Come find us!
Two Teen Events on Cape Cod July 16, 2015
Posted on July 2, 2015 Leave a Comment
Join the following Young Adult authors on Cape Cod for a day of wicked good books and wild storytelling. More details at the bottom of the page, but the quick and dirty about these two free events is as follows: EVENT 1: BITE INTO READING at The Bourne Library, 19 Sandwich Rd, Bourne, MA. 1:00pm to 3:00 […]
Writing Real Characters
Posted on January 18, 2015 5 Comments
So, lately I’ve not been here, on my blog, because I am trying to get the final edits to CRUEL SUMMER done, so you can get your hot little hands on Kian, Ana, and MJ on March 16th, 2015 at the Girl Power Author Panel (deets to come). But I needed to squeeze in some […]
Cape Cod Scribe 