HURRICANE SEASON GIVEAWAY

Hi friends, just chiming in quickly to let you know my publisher is giving away ten copies of HURRICANE SEASON over on Goodreads! Contest runs through February 12. Use the link below and good luck! https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/271816-hurricane-season    

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Catching up…

I’ve received my first award for The Hideaway. My seven-year-old Kate brought this to me a couple days after the book came out.   Naturally, it’s the best kind of prize. Done novel. Check.  In case you missed it, I posted photos of the book release party on Facebook–you can find them here. It was…

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Update on books!

THE HIDEAWAYI received my editorial letter in mid-June with a deadline of July 29–two days from now. But I returned it to my editor Karli about a week ago! Her letter was lovely, truly. It was four pages of comments, kind praise, suggestions, and questions. I was incredibly relieved because I’ve heard of huge editorial…

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The Hideaway comes out in just a little over a year!!

Seriously. I’ve been throwing around “a year and a half” but really, it’s only about a year and two months. That’s crazy. So I need to stop saying a year and a half. Closer to one year sounds much closer. In the interest of full disclosure about how this whole publishing process works, I’ll tell…

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How It All Went Down

Everyone knows the process of publishing a book is a long slog. Even I know that and I’m still at the bottom of the hill. Maybe a few steps up from the bottom, but significantly closer to the bottom than I am to the top. I always like to read about how a person goes…

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