World building
I like creating my own worlds. It makes me feel like everything is possible. The trick is to make everything in your world plausible. I...
Why Girls should Kick Butt
One of my reviewers recently mentioned that they liked that I have a strong female lead. This came when I was thinking about how many men...
5 Things you didn't know about Blazing Blunderbuss
1. It was written as a NaNoWriMo. NaNoWriMo is a month where people all over the world write 50,000 words. I had been sitting on my...
How to teach someone with Dyslexia:Thoughts by a Dyslexic Author
By day I am an English teacher and I often get students in my class with dyslexia and I'm shocked by the teaching methods used on...
5 Myths on Dyslexia: Thoughts from a Dyslexic Author
I really hate people's preconceived ideas on Dyslexia. So, here are a few myths about Dyslexia that I have come across as both an Author...
Thoughts from a Dyslexia Author
People are always amazed that I am Dyslexic. Especially, since I love words and I read a lot. I mean a lot. I read in a month more books...
12 Books better than the movie or maybe not.
Most people say after watching a movie adaptation of a book that the book was better. Well to be honest I actually think there are some...
The curse of the Literary Novel
I'm a genre reader and I'm not a fan of what I call 'the great american novel' (from the movie Finding Forrester) I have often had this...
Always write a bad book first
In researching how to get published I remember someone wrote that when you start writing you have to first get a bad book out of the way....
Why my books don't have any sex
I'm a Mormon, but that isn't why I don't have sex in my books. I find that when an author focuses on the two main characters alone it...
