Have you ever really liked something that you are terrible at? That’s me and art! I remember taking my first art class in middle school and loving it! For someone that was so focused on math and science, getting a chance to delve into my creative side … albeit rudimentary

Any Hobbit fans out there??? So, no, this is not a blog post about how I’m switching genres from crime thrillers to fantasy. While I enjoy a few of those iconic stories, it’s not something that is even close to being in my wheelhouse of interest in writing. After spending

An idiom referring to over-reactive, histrionic behaviour where a person makes too much of a minor issue. Now, I know I am absolutely prone to histrionic behavior. Queen of exaggeration and teetting on the edge of dramacydal. I’m expressive, too much so at times, and emotional, too much so at

If you’ve read The Accidental Hero, then you probably immediately thought of Mena’s signature scent … the one that drives Julian bonkers with desire and that he notices whenever she’s in the room. When I was writing the book, I wanted there to be a symbol of Julian’s undeniable attraction

At the start of the New Year, I decided to stop eating chocolate candy. Notice I didn’t say sweets or sugar or anything broad like that. I was very specific on what I would be giving up. Chocolate candy, like the snickers, m&m’s, rolos, Reese’s peanut butter cups, York peppermint

To attack critically where a person is vulnerable, uninformed. Yep, that’s what happened to me when I got the latest round of edits on the sequel to The Accidental Hero. Before you can understand why I took it so hard, I need to lay a little groundwork. When I finished

In college, I watched every soap opera that was on television at the time … which I think was about 11 of them. But the ABC soaps were always my hands down favorite. Fast forward all these years later, only one ABC soap remains: General Hospital. It’s the only one