Never Surrender
You have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead – George Lucas Strange Chemistry may be gone, but my love for writing will never die. Onward.
Strange Chemistry Shuts Down
Market saturation. That’s the official reason. Just a little over a month after FEATHER BOUND is published, its publisher, STRANGE CHEMISTRY, will be shutting its doors for good. And all I can think about is how sad I am: for…
Cover Reveal: Waistcoats & Weaponry by Gail Carriger
Oh my god why have I not seen this? This is glorious!
Throwback Teaser Tuesday!
It’s great to go through some of my old manuscripts again. This is a short snippet from an old YA Contemporary Fantasy I wrote called DIVINE. Pretty girls and gods and magic and monsters (and the usual, you know). Too bad…
The Sea is Ours: Tales of Steampunk and Southeast Asia
Lord knows I love steampunk. But what I love even more are all the conversations that have been that have been going on over the years (more and more as time goes on) about steampunk not so entrenched in the…
Would FEATHER BOUND make a good movie?
Actually, I think it would make a really cool TV show. No seriously, Gossip Girl meets Classical Fairytales? Swan maidens, captivity, freedom, the dark side of wealth and power. I could see it, and it would seriously be like a dream…
The Myth of the Strong Heroine in YA Novels
This is great. I think we need to rethink how we understand strength, weakness and potential for growth when it comes to YA heroines!
FEATHER BOUND IS OUT INTO THE WORLD!! <3
When Deanna’s missing friend Hyde turns up at his father’s funeral to claim his corporate empire and inheritance, she is swept into his glittering world of paparazzi and wealth. But re-kindling her friendship and the dizzying new emotions along for…
So I Wrote a Thing for Diversity in YA
A very personal thing about what it’s like to be a POC writer. I was really inspired by the #WeNeedDiverseBooks twitter campaign. —->Check it out here!<—– Oh and guess what? *~*~*~FEATHER BOUND officially launches tomorrow!~*~*~* Pre-order Here! FEATHER BOUND comes…
This is THAT Post where a YA Author Talks about Getting Bad Reviews
Hee hee heee…..yeah. Reviews. Where do I start? It’s a weird and wonderful thing, having strangers review your book and all. I mean, I started off basically only writing stories for myself. Every once and a while, I’d show one…