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CHANGE OF MOMENTUM is Done!

CHANGE OF MOMENTUM (working title – Laws Of Attraction) is finally done and handed into my publisher. The cover art should be approved by the end of the month and I’ll have a pub date in early 2019. I’m so excited! Want some stats? Word Count: 122,000 Body Count: 7+…

Food, Triggers, Healthy Thoughts, and Well-Meaning Abelists

CW: eating disorders, abelism, fat-phobia I was a tiny kid. This is an important fact for you to know. I was born early and underweight. I was sick a lot as a child, and allergic to practically everything. By the time I was a pre-teen my parents were divorced…

Celebrating the Little Things

Last week when I did the biweekly grocery shopping event (and with several teenagers at home it is a major event) I decided what my family really needed was a splurge. We’d been rushing around doing choir concerts, ASL learning events, conferences, and job interviews and it felt like we’d…

I’m Going To Be A Teacher!

Hey! How are you? Long time now blog… It’s been a little busy over at the Brooks’ place. I know, I say that every time I log in, but it’s true. I had a really easy month planned and then I volunteered for something. I know. Terrible decision really. But…

How To Write A Query Letter

QUERY(n) – the letter a hopeful author sends to an agent or editor with the express wish of getting the manuscript off their desk and onto someone else’s publication schedule. The query is an essential part of the publication process even for Indie Authors, it’s also one of the…

Know When It’s Time To Walk Away

I’ve always been a big believer in writing regularly. Good habits are hard to make, and keeping a regular writing schedule helps an author in the long run. However, as the years have passed, I’ve veered away from the Write Every Day! camp towards the idea of Think Every Day….

Change Of Momentum News!

In case you were curious how much gets cut or rewritten from a novel… … my Cut Scene file for #ChangeOfMomentum is at 10k right now. The final novel will probably be 90k. The cut scenes are things I rewrote from a different POV, parts of scenes that…

Occasionally Eric

Many, many years ago, when the internet was young, I was a fourteen-year-old sitting in a quiet house in the windswept plains of Wyoming. It was time for the annual court-appointed visit to my father’s house. He was elsewhere. Maybe working. Maybe sleeping. Maybe drunk. My much-younger siblings were in…

Draft By Draft – How Books Get Written

One of the first lessons a novelist learns is that writing a book is not like writing an essay in school. The dynamics are different. The time factors are different. The end results are different. The drafts are different. With an essay it’s common to finish a full draft of…

Moving On, Letting Go, And Stepping Forward

2018 has been an interesting year for me. To say it didn’t quite go as planned is an understatement. In January I had some really big plans and a really tight schedule planned out. There was so much I wanted to do that by March I felt burnt out and…