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March 2, 2017
2 more days!
It’s just two more days until the release of Unconditionally, and I thought that deserves some shameless self promotion 
March 1, 2017
I think I’ve broken my brain
Today I’ve rewritten, revised, and edited almost 5000 words. After being too busy with other stuff for the past two weeks, I haven’t had the time to work on The Locked Room, but I made up for that today.
Look here:
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I’ve changed from present to past tense, but mostly I’ve tightened, tightened, and tightened. The result? Seven hundred words less than what I started out with.
That’s a whole lot of unnecessary words if you ask me!
But now my brain hurts. I need someone to get over here, put a ba...
February 28, 2017
Follow-up
On day 23 of the #30DayWritingChallenge I wrote a letter to myself, containing a plan on how to stop procrastinating and get my writing going again. I decided to follow up after 30 days to see how it worked, and now it’s time. (I realize it hasn’t been a full month since I wrote the blog post, but it was scheduled, so I wrote the letter and started my plan a few days before.)
It’s actually been 30 days, and here’s the evaluation:
Make a to-do list every day:
I realized quickly that every day...
February 27, 2017
Instead of writing update: beach picture
Mondays are usually for writing updates, but since I told you on Friday what I’ve been up to and have been lazing about the entire weekend it feels unnecessary.
Instead I’ll post a beach picture for you to enjoy, while I finish the edits on Find His Way Home.
It’s taken this weekend in Penang. The ocean was so warm it was like stepping into a shower and I splashed around like a kid, pretending to be a mermaid. Thankfully there’s no pictures of that 
February 26, 2017
Release blitz: Snapshots by Addison Albright
Today I welcome Addison Albright and her new release Snapshots to my blog. It’s a collection of short stories that I had the privilege of beta reading, and I absolutely love them. Short stories are my favorite thing to read: it’s delicious morsels of romance, as if I bought a big bag with all my favorite candies, and no matter what I pull out, I’m going to love it.
I think my favorite story of the collection is Cow Pie Bingo. It’s so cute and feel-good, and I adore the name. Or maybe it’s Pho...
February 25, 2017
One week until “Unconditionally”
Only one more week to go. Iiiiih, I’m excited!!
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Flamboyant book café owner Luca Moretti and geeky doctor Gus Hansen have been together for six years when the Supreme Court ruling makes same-sex marriage legal in all states. On June 26, 2015, Gus gets down on one knee and Luca screams yes.
On their wedding day, shortly before the ceremony, Luca’s mother explodes in anger, calling him a freak. The reason? He’s wearing a white veil, sprinkled with crystals.
Their relationship has been strained...
February 24, 2017
#RainbowSnippets
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Weekend means Rainbow Snippet time here on the blog. I’ve joined the Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook. According to their description, “it’s a group for LGBTQ+ authors, readers, and bloggers to gather once a week to share six sentences from a work of fiction—a WIP or a finished work of even 6-sentence book recommendation (no spoilers please!).”
My snippet this week is from my upcoming short story Unconditionally, but this week I thought I’d show you how Luca and Gus met. And, um, I apparen...
February 23, 2017
Hard working writer!
I’ve been working like a fiend these last couple days. Since I wrote this post, I’ve done the following:
revised and edited Find His Way Home. I’m going to do another run through on Monday, but after that I think I’m done written (and agonized over) a blurb for FHWH started writing a detailed summary for FHWH written and scheduled four blog posts for when I’m away (including this one). I have a guest on Sunday, make sure you stop by! written and scheduled two blog posts for my private blog o...Blurbs
Guys, can we talk about blurbs? And how they are harder to write than the actual story and quite possibly the worst thing ever?
If I was religious, I would damn them all to hell. What is the science-y equivalent to hell, by the way? A black hole? In that case I wish that all blurbs will be sucked into the biggest, baddest blurb-eating black hole in the universe—that’s how much I dislike them.
We live in a technological world, computers can pretty much do everything. Why isn’t there softwear a...
February 21, 2017
You know you’re a writer when…
Yesterday we booked a trip to a Malaysian island called Penang, flying out on Friday, returning on Sunday. We’re celebrating the 45th birthday of both my husband and our friend visiting from Sweden. We’ll stay at a lovely hotel by the beach, sip on colorful drinks with tiny umbrellas, gorge on super sweet pineapple, swim in the ridiculously hot ocean, and enjoy ourselves.
It’s just… I woke up at dawn with a gasp and my hand clutched to my chest, Hollywood style. Something I hadn’t thought ab...
