This week’s edition of A Creative Space features the start I wrote to my “practice novel”– the first novel I attempted writing. I realized that as much as I loved…
A Requiem for Summer (original song lyrics) Carried by the breeze, hidden in the shade, I’ve unearthed the summer glow, a game that I once played. Time failed to find…
Trust Me The plane was nose-diving toward the ground. We were about to crash. Everyone around me, though, seemed oddly calm. Even Joe, who was seated next to me, seemed…
When I was in high school, I loved poetry. Poems covered my two closet doors in my bedroom, and I loved to read and write poems. Of the few things…
A woman called to reserve the table. She called three days in advance. It was difficult to tell from the even tone of her voice what the occasion was, but…
Chasing Eveline Release Celebration (July 11, 2017) Chasing Eveline is my debut YA novel about Ivy Higgins who sets herself on a course to reunite 80s band Chasing Eveline. Chasing…
I think I peaked in sixth grade. As a writer, that is. Maybe romantically, too, considering that was the year of my epic first kiss with Collin Crosby, the boy…
Chasing Eveline Release Celebration (July 11, 2017) Buried Deep Within My iPod I have once done a particular something that brings two blooms of shame to my cheeks. It’s the…
It’s difficult to write a book. Seriously. But sometimes I think it’s not just the putting the words down on the paper that’s the toughest. (Although a first draft, for…
I wake them up on late afternoons or early Saturday mornings before dawn. They travel sidewalks and streets, swerving around people and careful of cracks and tiny brown piles. They…
So this pretty much summed up my Monday. As a quick update, my publisher has decided to cease operations one month prior to my debut YA Contemporary release. So my…
She’d almost gotten to the top. She’d been so close but tumbled all the way back down. She stands at…