Listen now! So you have an idea for your mystery novel. You’ve made all the decisions you need to make to know where to start. And now it’s time to dive in. This week on the show I’m talking about getting started writing your book—the actual pen to paper (or fingers to keys) part. And we’re...
Listen now! So you want to write that mystery? Awesome! I love when people own their creative dreams. But it’s not as simple as just sitting down and waiting for the muse to strike with her fairy wand full of creativity. Instead, we’ve gotta do some things to set ourselves up for success. I’ve...
Listen now! Friends, I’ve got a treat for you this week! If you love Halloween and coffee as much as I do, get excited for this episode. I have fellow cozy author Emmeline Duncan joining me on the show today. Emmeline’s books are so much fun. She’s the author of the Ground Rules Mysteries about...
I am a chronic learner. I would go to school forever if I had the unlimited funds it takes to get degrees these days (and yeah, I'm still paying off that grad school degree from many years ago, so there's that). I do manage to find a way to keep learning though. I love online courses and have...
When I first heard the words “project manage" and "your writing” in the same sentence, my head almost exploded. I'm the kind of person who literally cries when faced with a complicated spreadsheet. The first time someone asked me about a pivot table, I almost had a heart attack. And no, I'm not...
Happy Valentine’s Day! Let’s talk love affairs. Not the human kind, because those can so often be disappointing, right? No, let’s talk real love—our love affairs with our creativity. With our writing. I was doing a meditation this morning and the meditation teacher read a poem. It was about...
Writing “success” doesn’t happen overnight. We all tend to get caught up in such a narrow view of success, and specifically this idea of it happening "overnight." Writers definitely experience this. We see the people on the NY Times bestseller list, hear about the new writer who got a...
