Let's wrap this year up and tie a pretty bow around it before we unwrap the next year! My 2025 word(s) of the year: Creative Confidence: Play This year was about stepping out with my work in the ways that fit me instead of squeezing myself into ill-fitting entrepreneurial and artistic trends of the moment—not apologizing (to myself more than anything) for my own approach....
Category: My Creative Projects
New ebook release: The broken life & deaths of Julia Trencher
The story began long before Max showed up. The initial Trencher story that started it all hasn’t let me go, and instead grew into a whole world with a multitude of endearing characters. But it started here, with a love for the abject and uncanny, and for the girl who was unfixed. I’m honored to have you join this journey and enter this enchanted world. You can now get the story that started it all as a free ebook....
Inspiration from circus wagons
Circus continues to inspire through its many forms in both history and imagination. While researching for Unfixed, I visited Baraboo, Wisconsin and its Circus Museum. It is there in the wagons exhibit that I encountered the fairy tale wagon that inspired each performer’s residence in Unfixed. Check it out...
The unlikely duo: (Wo)man of faith, man of science
I’m gonna say something real controversial here: I love the TV show LOST. Don’t get me started on the ending. Its depth of character and its twisty plot, that everything doesn’t tie up in a tidy bow....like how could I not? One beautiful refrain of the story is the “Man of faith, Man of science”. Those who buy into the mystery and those who look for something logical instead. And of course, in its own way, Unfixed has some similarities in its unlikely duo.... Today on my blog, get a sneak peek into these characters and the mysteries they encounter....
Meet Max: investigator of the vanishing circus
Max snuck up on me. I started writing a story about impulsive, naïve Julia running away to the circus. And as I’m writing about the troupe's plan “For freedom,” I got interrupted by this guy investigating a circus that disappeared, and I had no idea why he was there, let alone anything about a disappearing circus.
Ready to read another circus book?
It's been a long time coming. You've heard me talking about my circus book as long as I've had this blog. Unfixed (what I've endearingly called "my circus book") has finally got a launch in site. In the coming months I'll be sharing all about it as we get ready for launch. In the meantime, here's where it's at...
If you give an author a wedding…
...she'll stretch her creative muscles in a new way 🙂 I put a pause on writing to plan a bigger celebration than my booklaunch party. I got to use my creativity in writing & designing the invites, decor, floor plan, music, and so much more for my wedding celebration. It was fun to get together… Continue reading If you give an author a wedding…
A circus story 10 years in the making
It doesn't feel like 10 years, but here we are. It's 2022, and back in 2012 I took an "Uncanny Literature" class in my final year at college. We studied The Sandman by E.T.A. Hoffman, and a bunch of, well, uncanny literature. I fell in love. That's how it all started, how the seed for a magical circus story was planted. It's been a long journey. It took me awhile with all the life things. It took my characters awhile - one was going through literal torture while the others chilled by a bonfire for quite a long while as I went about my life. But we finally found our way through the story to the other side. In this blogpost, I share more details of the journey for patrons. Click the link to read all about where it started and what's next.
On completing the first draft of a dream come true
I have finished draft 1 of the circus novel! First, grab a piece of cake to celebrate with me. Then, I'm off to the editing process so I can get it into your hands sooner than later... It's still a ways off, but we're making progress 🙂 Patrons can read all the details of where I'm at and what's next in this blogpost....
Babes & bookworms, dreamers & professors, wizards & creatives unite
Readers are what make writers possible. We're all storybreathers, day in and day out. I wholeheartedly believe in the power of books, the power of words, but I moreso believe in the power of readers. As I work toward publishing "I Know You Like a Murder", I have so many ideas to share and ways… Continue reading Babes & bookworms, dreamers & professors, wizards & creatives unite