Well, the holidays are over. Enter the looooooong winter months of January, February, and March, when it's freakishly cold outside and successive snowstorms foil your plans way too often. I used to dread this time of year. Once Christmas was over,...
Beth Kempton's Calm Christmas and a Happy New Year: A Little Book of Festive Joy is a delightful holiday read.
I’m always searching for Christmas books that are a little outside the box. Yes, I want something with more substance than a rom-com....
Welcome, Tartlets, to my living, breathing, ever-updating list of Christmas Books You Need to Read.
This book list is compiled by yours truly. Unlike a lot of book lists on the internet, the holiday books I’ve recommended below are all books...
Thanks for joining me for Part 2 of my Hybrid Publishing series! Today, I'm sharing the details about my experiences with two hybrid publishers -- both the good and the bad!
A Tale of Two Publishers
As I mentioned in How to Decide if Hybrid...
Writers, I have gone down a freakin' rabbit hole when it comes to Hybrid Publishing. Which is pretty incredible considering that I didn't even know hybrid publishing existed until a few months ago.
If you're wondering what hybrid publishing is and...
Confession: when I signed up for my first novel writing workshop, I didn't think it would be that helpful. Really, I signed up as a last resort.
When I hit a roadblock trying to turn Hyggely Ever After from a rom-com into women's fiction, my...
A Storm of Infinite Beauty begins with a bang – pretty much literally.
Did you know that a massive earthquake and tsunami decimated a portion of the Alaskan coastline in the 1960s? Because I had no idea this happened until I read Julianne...
Hello, Tartlets and Darksiders! A new podcast episode is up on Dark Side of the Word. Join me and Kait as we discuss Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh.
The story is set around one woman in the midst of the (real life) 1951 unsolved mass poisoning...
Hey, Tartlets. Coming at you today with how I finally -- finally -- revived a manuscript that I thought was a lost cause.
Notice that I said "revived" and not "revised." That's on purpose. Remember when I called Time of Death on Novel #3? Yeah,...
Sunrise by the Sea is the fourth installment of the Little Beach Street Bakery series, and boy, was it worth the wait. Much like one of the “red thinks” (a.k.a., strawberry tarts) from character Polly’s bakery, I devoured this Jenny Colgan...
