Musings

  • Notes from the Golden Door

    Hi all! I’m going to keep this brief, but I wanted to write a bit about The Golden Door Duet. Book One, La Bellezza, is available now; Book Two, Il Bestione, is up for preorder now, and goes live this coming Saturday. It’s a historical romance duet set in Sicily and New York at the…

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  • 2020 Summer (?) Forecast (?)

    Usually around this time, with my spring semester coming to a close, I do a little summer celebration and forecast post, full of excitement for all the writing I’m going to get to do in the next few months, while one full-time job is mostly on pause and I can focus completely on the other…

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  • 2019 Recap/2020 Forecast

    2019 Recap/2020 Forecast

    Here we are at the end of another year. I don’t really do New Year’s resolutions, but I can look back over the past year and ahead to the new one. 2019 was the 6th anniversary of my indie publishing career and the 7th anniversary of the beginning of my fiction-writing journey. I took a…

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  • 2019 Fave Five

    2019 Fave Five

    After several years of barely finding time to read more than a few books a year for pleasure, I’ve found the Goodreads Challenge to be super motivating to make the time. I am really achievement driven, so if there’s a mark to meet, I will do all I can to meet it, which means I’ve…

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  • SIX YEARS

    SIX YEARS

    Today marks six years since I first clicked “publish” and put Move the Sun into the world. On the anniversary, I like to do the traditional thing and reflect on the path I’ve taken in those six years, where it’s brought me and what I’ve seen. If you’ve been hanging with me for a while,…

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  • SUMMER 2019 WRAP-UP

    SUMMER 2019 WRAP-UP

    Today I go back to campus to start another academic year. Another summer is over. Damn, no span of time moves as fast for me as mid-May through late August. I don’t feel quite ready to go back to the two-full-time-jobs pace, but here we are. BUT For these brief few months that I had…

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  • On Journaling as Rescue

    When I was a kid, around eight or nine, I got one of those little pink diaries with a lock for Christmas. I immediately began styling myself as the second coming of Emily Dickinson, writing poems and scribbles and locking it carefully after every entry, hiding it under my bed. (Yes, I knew about Emily…

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  • Biker Romance in the Sunset

    Last Saturday, Lead, the finale of the Brazen Bulls MC series, went live, and that represents my last MC romance for a while. After three complete series occurring in the same story world, a total of 27 books, it’s strange not to be actively writing or at least taking notes for a story about bikers.…

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  • The Brazen Bulls MC: Some Reflection

    Now that Lead is out in the world and The Brazen Bulls MC series is complete, I thought I’d take some time and reflect on writing that series, and on writing three (so far) related biker series that crossover with each other the way Signal Bend, Night Horde SoCal, and the Bulls do. This is…

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  • Looking Back, Peeking Ahead

    Looking Back, Peeking Ahead

    Every year when I write this New Year’s post, I say how glad I am the old year is over and how much I hope the new year will be nicer. I’m going to stop doing that, ‘cuz I think I’m jinxing us all. Besides, I am very much a glass-half-empty kind of person (actually,…

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