• Hearing Women’s Stories

    There was a time when it was difficult for to find women’s stories other than my own family and celebrities. Then I went way down the rabbit hole on women’s memoirs. I actually had a book blog for a while and did Memoir Mondays. When I took down the blog, after a major life shift,

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  • New poems and social media

    Let’s start with new poems….. I have some ideas for another collection, well, two other collections. One is an actual lessons learned from my time in service, kind of like the poems I had been posting a while back. Some of those would be used as is and some have had a few revisions. So

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  • One month!

    It has been one month since Shapeshifting was published and I have definitely learned some things. Traditionally published does not equal available in all bookstores immediately but it is a hell of a head start. I’ve been going to local indie bookstores and seeing if their willing to stock on the shelves, as well as

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  • So it begins….

    So the hustle of selling my book begins. Don’t get me wrong, I did some things before the release, mostly social media, but this is a different era I was not prepared for. Having physical copies available of my book means trying to get on shelves, which means emailing and visiting book stores and other

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  • Book Launched!

    Honestly, I had been terrified of the whole book launch idea. I don’t even like birthday parties thrown for me. We decided to keep it low key and put out a table at a friend’s coffee shop with some copies. It was perfect. Friends showed up to buy signed copies and stayed a while for

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  • Publishing soon!!!

    It’s been a crazy road but I was definitely blessed in many ways along it. It was the waiting that was the worst. I don’t know how some people stay on this road so long with the long times between query and response, offer to publish and preorder. Now that I’m in the preorder stage,

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