Happy April! No, it’s not a joke. Yes, it did arrive that quickly. There is a lot of difficulty and loss in the world right now, so I want to focus first on some things I’m thankful for: I’m thankful for the beautiful, vibrant flowers blooming all over my yard and neighborhood. I’m thankful for …
Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you all (even my non-American friends) get to spend time with loved ones and eat yummy things this week. Thanksgiving week means it’s also time for the Phoenix Fiction Writers’ second annual sale! I am so thankful for all of you, and this year has been an incredible year of meeting …
First off, I owe you an apology. It was evening of the second Monday of this month. I laid my book down, turned off the lights, and had a terrible epiphany: I forgot this month’s Grammar with Beth article. The way my schedule worked out, I was not able to get it written in a …
“The Reluctant Godfather” is a delightful retelling of Cinderella with the most endearing grumpy protagonist imaginable.
This month, I planned to feature one of the books I’ve loved for a long time. Instead, I decided to tell you about the book I just finished reading: The Electrical Menagerie, by Mollie E. Reader. Why the change of plans? Because this book is simply magical. The Electrical Menagerie is perplexingly difficult to describe. It …
I’ve been puzzling over what to do with this blog since I finished sharing the early draft of Child of the Kaites with you. I finally have decided. At least for now, my goal is to bring you one of my original writings (short story or poem) per month and also share with you about one …
Yellow is the best color. It’s butter on popcorn At a movie theater. It’s a sunflower lifted toward the sky, A VW Bug stuffed with friends, Hip-high rods of cement and steel That tell you it’s safe to walk here. It’s a glass of lemonade On a hot summer day, The star atop a Christmas …
As long as I can remember, being an author has been my dream job. Most little girls want to be an actress or a ballerina or something of the sort; I wanted to be an author. As this blog illustrates, that dream has lived on and gotten stronger. And so, today, it is with greatest …