During a recent book club, a reader shared how she cried while reading The Last Carolina Girl. She went on to ask if it’s hard for me to write those scenes. The short answer: yes. And it only gets harder with each round of revisions. Why? Because with each draft,
Read MoreI fail at marinating. Perhaps part of my problem is that I can be bad at planning ahead—blame my type b personality for that one. I can balk at things like meal planning and question the benefit of marinating. It has become such a joke in my family that we
Read MoreI’m not going to lie; being an author is a pretty cool gig. I get to sit around in my athletic attire all day in only the company of my golden retrievers, secluded from the rest of the world as I tell stories. Sure there are those days when I
Read MoreConfession: editing makes me grumpy. Or, at least according to my fourteen-year-old’s “accidental” Christmas gift to me. Okay, perhaps I need to back up and explain myself. Here’s what happened… First of all, I’ve come to know that I love deep work. I loathe distractions. This became even more evident
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