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ZOMBIE CHUNKS is now available!

You will find my story, "Care of the Undead Dog," along with many more great zombie stories in this anthology. Another highlight is "All Dressed in White," which was written by my dear friend, G. Marie Merante. (Now we're book sisters!)

Congrats to all the authors and a big shout out to Dead Silent and Christian Bentulan on the incredible artwork.

It's a Writer Thing #12: Goals versus Outcomes

Happy New Year, wonderful writers! Welcome back to It’s a Writer Thing.

Today, I want to talk about goals. In my work as a clinical psychologist, I help people set goals to improve their health and overcome challenges. I’m a firm believer in making commitments to ourselves, regardless of our life strivings are.

But the way we set goals matters.

Here’s what I mean. Take someone who is trying to lose weight. Their goal might be to lose ten pounds or twenty pounds or whatever. But actually, n...

I books. (Don't we all?)

It's a Writer Thing #11: It's all about control

Hello lovely writers! Welcome back to my It’s a Writer Thing mini-series on stimulus control and generalizability. As you may recall, I’m a clinical psychologist, which means I get to take advantage of all those great psychological theories and put them to work for me in my writing, and I want to share that with you.

In my last two posts, I talked about the benefit of ingraining a very powerful urge to write by creating a habit. Writing under the same circumstances every day for a few we...

Happy New Year! 2017 is here!

The latest issue of ALLEGORY Magazine is out!

I'm so excited to announce that the latest issue of Allegory Magazine is outand you can read it for free.

This issue is very special to me as I had a hand in choosing the stories that made this issue's cut. When the list came out, I was giddy to see several stories that came across my desk had been selected by the Editor in Chief. I never expected the experience to be so fun or rewarding, but I loved every second of it. So another HUGE thank you to the awesome Ty Drago, author of the Middle G...

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It's a Writer Thing #10: Turbo-charge the environment to work for you and your writing with Stimulus Generalizability

Happy Fall! We all know what fall means... NanoWriMo is almost here! Trying to cram 50K into one month is a major challenge. This month in my, It’s a Writer Thing post, I'm going to talk about a tool that can help you get there.

Last time, I began a discussion about the concept of stimulus control, a powerful psychological principal we writers can harness to increase our drive to write. By creating a writing situation that we stick to—same day, same time, same place, same old robe that...

#FicFest, here I come!

Friends and followers may know about my incredible experience earlier this year as a winner of Pitch2Publication, a contest where authors submit completed books for an opportunity to gain mentorship by an editor or writer a little further along the journey. When Rebecca Faith Heyman chose my YA thriller, "Ten Past Closing," as her pick, I was bowled over. It was a ton of work, but I loved every minute of it. And, as a result, I was bowled over again when I was offered representation by one o...

Story acceptance (woo hoo!)

I'm so excited to announce my latest story acceptance. My dark, uber-gross comedy will appear in ZOMBIE CHUNKS, a horror anthology from Dead Silent Publishing. Some of those involved with this book are also part of Silent Studios, a group of gore-lovers responsible for special effects in a whole slew of movies, shows, and games (and I'm sure everyone out there has seen at least one piece of their work). Check back for more info soon.