Thoughts from my Desk

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 and nerves, wonderi...

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 room (pun intended), ...

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 between self-care Netf...

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

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 phase, to a manuscr...

Sometimes you need to do something in life that completely shakes you up. Like Claudia from The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, I didn’t run awa...

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 exactly what happened thi...

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. I was an only chil...

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 novel is. Some though...

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, and as readers, we...

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