Don’t Let Your Gifts Stay Hidden + Backstage Pass to Shrapnel Scene

Have you ever uncovered a gift weeks after Christmas or a birthday that was hidden away from your children deep in your closet so they wouldn’t find it…but you didn’t either?

I hate when that happens. And yet I let it happen last year. Not with a physical gift, but with a gift of mine that I hadn’t drawn on or cultivated since my teen years.

When I was writing Shrapnel there was a scene where I included song lyrics. The scene was very pivotal for the character, Scott, and for as long as I had...