Writing life

When I was young I was a ferocious reader. I remember my mom getting upset with me for always having my nose buried in a book. Now I'm so grateful for all those hours I spent with my face pressed against pages of text and my mind lost in the imagination of story. Many of those early favorites continue to influence me now as an adult and shape my attempts at putting my own stories onto the page.

Despite my deep love for reading, the idea of writing a book didn't cross my mind until well into adulthood and at that time I had already bought into a lie that I wasn't good enough. Such a common lie, isn't it?

It is a terrifying joy to be pursuing writing, to have multiple books in process, and to be sending those books out to agents. I’m currently querying an adult contemporary romance (with magical elements) and drafting the next book in that series. I’m also four books into a sci-fi romance novella series that I’m publishing under a pen name. And have two fantasy novels waiting in the wings for revisions.