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The Life of an Indie Author Before a Conference (opens the original)
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Once upon a time, I’d go to a club in zero-degree weather in Boston wearing weather-inappropriate shoes, carrying a teeny purse, a tube of lipstick, and a wadded-up $20.I didn’t have a phone, because this was the ’80s. No one knew where I was. I didn’t know when I’d be home, or who I’d come home with. I’d stay out all night, somehow surviving on full sugar Coca-Cola and greasy slices of pizza, then stagger home in time for class with my eyeliner definitely not intact.Now, in 2026, I’ve been thin
New Genre, Same Author: Taking Your Writing Career in a New Direction (opens the original)
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Practical Magic and the Heroine’s Journey (opens the original)
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I spend a lot of time thinking about why Practical Magic has stayed with so many women for nearly thirty years. Mostly because I write cozy paranormal fiction that’s adjacent to that story.To be clear, what I’m writing is closer to the movie version — with themes of sisterhood, romance, midnight margaritas, witches, beautiful cozy surroundings, and a little untimely death. Alice Hoffman’s four-book series is far darker, and far sharper, than either the movie or I have the talent for. <div class=
I’ve been sitting on this movie news for months (opens the original)
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DRIVE, the movie based on my 11-year-old, self-published, Wattpad-published, Formula 1-inspired romance, comes to Prime Video on October 28.I’ve been anxiously sitting on this information for months and it’s been difficult to keep it inside. Secrets don’t come easy to me; I was a reporter. I was born to blah blah. The book was about Dante, an Italian F1 driver, and Savannah, an American woman hired to work on his pit crew. Soon, because of REASONS, they enter into a fake relationship. Paparazzi
A September Reset (opens the original)
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Hello, friends!September always feels like a second January to me. New beginnings, the sun sets earlier, the pace shifts, and suddenly I want to get organized and start fresh. It’s a holdover from years of school, I guess.This year, that feeling is showing up in my writing. I’m about to release A Spell for Second Chances, the beginning of a brand-new series (and the book I first serialized here on Substack), while also working on A Florist’s Guide to Homicide, the first book in another new myste
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