Gina R. Briggs's Blog
February 28, 2025
February 3, 2025
New Release Info Coming Soon!
Please check me out on IG (@ginarbriggswrites) for reveals this month! I'll post the title tomorrow, the cover on 2/10, and the trailer on 2/26!
January 16, 2023
Parental Leave
Hello, readers! I can’t believe that I’m finally typing this sentence…After a year on this adoption journey, we are finally parents! I just wanted to pop in here to let you know that I’ll be MIA for a bit as I adjust to motherhood and caring for a newborn.
I also wanted to show off our little love, Sofia Rose Briggs. She was born on Jan. 4th at 5:50pm in Des Moines, Iowa. Matthew and I had the honor of being in the delivery room while Sofia’s first mother was in labor. Witnessing Sofia’s fir...
November 19, 2022
Black Friday Sale & National Adoption Month
Hello readers, friends, family, and bookworms…
I wanted to pop in to let ya know that signed copies of THE ISA PROJECT will be going on sale starting November 25th and remain 15% off until 28th! This sale is obviously timed around Black Friday, but it also just so happens to be National Adoption Awareness Month. In case you didn’t know, my husband and I are adopting. ALL proceeds from my signed copies go directly towards our adoption fund. This means that your pennies aren’t split with me and...
October 8, 2022
Introducing…Merch!
Hello, readers!
I’m ecstatic to announce that I’m ticking off another bucket list goal this month…I’m designing my own merch. I’ve always loved graphic design and already waste way too much time scrolling through Etsy. Now, I’m happy to share my own take on bookish gifts. Please take a look today by visiting my Signed Copies & Merch page!
For now, I’m just getting started with my signed “Baby Briggs edition” hardcovers, signed bookplates, a couple Frizzy-Haired Heroine logo goodies. Eventu...
September 30, 2022
Launch Day!
Dear Readers,
Today is the day…The Isa Project is officially available in print and eBook format at your favorite digital retailers! I’m already blown away buy the outpouring of love, support, and encouragement from friends and family…and y’all haven’t even read the book yet!
I wanted to give my sincerest of thanks (in advance) for giving my book a shot. It’s seriously so surreal to see my writing in a beautifully bound copy that I can hold in my hands. Of all my artistic dreams and pursu...
September 8, 2022
Why write?
I started writing murder mysteries starring my third grade classmates when I was nine. I’d spend hours on the family computer playing around on Microsoft Word with my old pal, Clippy, as my editor.
Remember this guy?Eighteen years later, I decided to take a stab at blogging. I was a millennial facing a quarter-life existential crisis, I had a MacBook, time to kill, and thoughts to voice–what could go wrong? My first blog, String Room Thoughts, was an experiment is regaining my creati...
