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10 Beach Towns to Visit This Summer That Are Perfect For Beach Reading

Beach reading has always been my favorite summer activity. Come late May and early June stories by all my favorite authors hit shelves and I love throwing them in a beach bag and finding a spot to read them in the sand. This year I’m most excited about Jane Green’s latest book, The Friends we […]

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My Favorite Character Looks For Summer From Waiting at Hayden’s

As soon as I finished writing Waiting at Hayden’s I couldn’t wait to see the story come to life visually! I had such a clear idea in my head of what the characters looked like and also what their homes looked like and even the restaurant where the book primarily takes place. On a creative impulse […]

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Packing for a Spring or Summer Trip To Italy

Next weekend I’m heading to Italy to celebrate one of my best friend’s weddings! I haven’t been back since the trip that loosely inspired my next novel, Map of Us, and can’t wait to spend five days in Tuscany with the bride-to-be, Kelsey, and the rest of the wedding party. Last time I was in […]

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Two Piece Workout Sets and My May Dance Fitness Playlist

My most popular blog post to date has been this one here on how to support your dream job when your dream job doesn’t pay. It’s a topic that I feel isn’t discussed much on social media and should be so people looking to pursue a dream have an idea of all that goes into […]

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Little Black Dresses Perfect For Spring & A Breakfast at Tiffany’s Engagement Party

Yesterday we celebrated my cousin John and his bride-to-be Mikaela with an engagement party in Newport Beach at Pelican Hill. It was a Breakfast at Tiffany’s themed affair so guests were asked to wear little black dresses and Mikaela showed up looking gorgeous in a black floor length gown with a Tiffany blue ribbon belt. […]

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How To Get Started Writing a Novel

So you want to write a novel? Congrats on this big decision and first step! 81 percent of Americans have a dream to write a book, but few actually follow through with it (something I totally get now that I’ve finally published a book). The novel is the greatest undertaking of the human imagination, a […]

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A Daisy Jones and Billy Dunne Inspired Wardrobe and Album Cover

I loved everything about Taylor Jenkin Reid’s latest book, Daisy Jones & The Six—from the way it was written entirely in the form of responses to interview questions, to the reveal of who was interviewing all the members of the band, to Reid’s exploration of love and fame, to the outfits described in the story. […]

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Easter Dresses & An Island Egg Hunt For Waiting at Hayden’s

Over the weekend I hid several signed copies of Waiting at Hayden’s in the free little libraries on Balboa Island. I’m always borrowing books from these little libraries to take to the beach. I love finding new reads here that I wouldn’t have picked out at the bookstore and sharing my favorites with others on […]

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My Favorite Beach Reads of All Time

This past week, with my family being in town and lots of evenings after work spent at the beach, I got to read several books in the sand. I’ve been working so much on my next novel, Map of Us, and the future of shopfiction™ that it’s been a while since I’ve gotten to really enjoy […]

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Writing Advice I Wish I Knew When I Started Waiting at Hayden’s

When I took a year off school and moved across the country to Charleston, South Carolina to write the first draft of Waiting at Hayden’s ten years ago, I knew very little about writing a book; all I did know was that I needed to get my story idea down on paper. I think that’s […]

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