Tag: #indieauthor
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Why Writing Silly Love Stories Matters
The most important thing to me as I wrote No Gouda Without You was to have a main character who was a cancer survivor. I was tired of reading and watching stories where women died of breast cancer. What about the seventy percent of women who have breast cancer, go through treatment, and then pick…
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Why Authors Call Their Books Their Babies
Sometimes authors talk about their book babies and I didn’t understand why until I was revising my first book. Writing a book is like being in labor. Once it’s done and the baby has arrived you quickly forget the finer points of how arduous the whole process was to endure! When I was writing this…
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New Year’s Resolutions
To-Do lists make me happy. I love a good planner. I look forward to goal-setting workshops. Once the presents are unwrapped on Christmas day, I pull out my planner and begin assessing the year ending and officially write out my resolutions. I’m super good at making resolutions. I’m pretty good at working on my resolutions,…