Thoughts from my Desk

The COVID-19 pandemic is the plot twist of our time. The global crisis that changed the trajectory of all of our stories. And one thing c...

It’s hard to believe it’s been one full year since EVERY LITTLE BAD IDEA came into the world. I remember that shaky feeling of excitement...

There are very few things I won’t write about. I consider myself an open book. But, today I’m going to finally face the elephant in the r...

So, I’m working on a project I’m excited about. But…working is a very loose term right now. As in, I get a few pages done each week in be...

Life before the launch of a book is many things: nerve-wracking, exciting, frenzied, paranoid, fun. You wait for your book to fall into t...

Books. Oh, how fast they grow up. From the tiny germ of an idea, to a plot, to words on a page, to that frustrating will-it-won’t-it-work...

Sometimes you need to do something in life that completely shakes you up. Like Claudia from The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweil...

If you had told me last year that I would be signing my book for a line of readers, I would have thought you were crazy. But that’s exact...

From the time I was five years old, all I wanted was to see my name on a book. I wanted to be a real author. My name in lights. The works...

When I first started telling people that I was writing a verse novel, I was surprised to learn that most people don’t know what a verse n...

Everyone once in a while, a writer comes along who shakes things up. They do things a new way, or with a new attitude, or with a new goal...

I’m a type-A personality. I’m wildly impatient, admittedly competitive, pretty organized, and I like to get stuff done. I think creative ...