Check out the new preview video for Olympia Heights: The Weight of the World. See my answers to questions about the themes and future plots of Olympia Heights.

It’s been a long, long road to get to where I am today. In July I didn’t know how to even stand up on quad skates (I was a 90′s kid, I learned to Roller Blade). Today I am a proud member of the Tragic City Rollers. The training process was grueling and I had many bruises to show for [...]

A few months ago I went to an audition for a new University of Montevallo commercial. I attend classes there, studying for my M.Ed. in Secondary Education for English, Language Arts. Two weeks later I spent my day reading Water for Elephants on my Kindle while I waited. Acting in film is a lot of waiting. You can see all of [...]

My NaNoWriMo novella is almost ready to come to you. The cover for Kissing Corpses was photographed by Carly Strickland (Illustrator Sunshine’s Night Out). Special thanks go out to Melissa Mitchell (the back) and Tommy Shaw (the hands). We had a great time last weekend shooting the cover! Kissing Corpses is a vampire romance gone horribly wrong. Below the cover, [...]

Back in my undergrad studies, I had the brilliant idea to write a modern Greek comedy. The play itself was full of superficial Greek mythology jokes, but was scrapped because it lacked heart. Some day I might revamp it. Today, after a conversation in my graduate Young Adult Literature class about teen sexuality, I recalled something that I did like [...]

The holidays were a blast. I saw friends from out of town and watched a zillion episodes of Battlestar Galactica (Somehow I missed this one while it was on TV). I discovered the glory of cheese blintzes! Now it’s back to work! Here is what I have been working on and what is coming in 2012: My New Years post [...]

Giveaways are one of the easiest ways to get people to look at a page, but they come with challenges. How do you spread the word to people not already on your site? How do you get entrants to come back and look at your page? What is the return on investment for paying to ship prizes? When I launched [...]

If you haven’t seen General Zoi’s Pony Maker, then you haven’t wasted a couple of hours of your life making a pony. Don’t click that link if you have plans this afternoon. If you’re bored, go for it! After discovering the Pony Maker, my husband and I made ponies of ourselves. These are glimpses at our souls. Here is mine: [...]

As I stated in my 8 Things to Do BEFORE NaNoWriMo Starts post, goals are more useful when you share them. So I’m sharing my goals with the internet to keep me honest. At the end of 2012 I will look back and assess which of these goals has been reached. Writing 3 Books! This averages out to about 4 [...]

The Tuesday before Christmas, this was exactly the topic on NPR as I drove to work. “Who had a good year in 2011?” They were looking for general answers for people, places, companies, and things. I realized that every answer I wanted to call in with was tied to the literary world, so I decided to borrow their topic and [...]

A few weeks back I did a post where I pasted some links to my work or my name around the web. Here is volume 2 with some surprising updates! Borders Overprice Borders Book stores haven’t been doing so well. This might be a hint as to why. I found that Borders is selling my book, list price $12.99, on [...]