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Before I released Lost in Magic, I rewrote it six times. Normally, I would never do that, but this was my first book, so it was also the book I learned on. Each pass made it stronger. The story got tighter, the characters became clearer, and by the time I released it, I had done…
When I first wrote Julia in Trust in Magic, she was only three years old and very much a secondary character. At the time I had no idea she was going to grow into something much bigger in the series. She was simply this little girl in the story, yet at the same time she…
Common terms in the author world are plotter and pantser—describing someone who plots before writing, and someone who writes by the seat of their pants. When people talk about plotting vs discovery writing, I’m definitely seen as the former. But I don’t just plot my stories. I plot everything I do, including weekend chores and…
This week, I’ve been thinking about how to write dialogue that feels real, mostly because I’ve been spending so much time with Mac and Dane on the page in Cursed to Suffer. One thing I keep coming back to is that dialogue doesn’t feel alive because the lines are clever. It feels alive because of…
When I started researching for my upcoming series, The Altered, I thought I was looking for a building. That sounded simple enough. I needed a home base for the team. A place they would keep coming back to. A place where plans get made, people recover, arguments happen, meals get eaten, and somebody is always…
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Season 3 key art). Courtesy of Paramount+ / StarTrek.com. Photo credit: Pari Dukovic/Paramount+. TM & © 2025 CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved. Back in December I finally started watching Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which means I’m very late to the party while everyone else has apparently been enjoying…
Sandra Spellman has been living in my head for a while, and I finally got a chance to put her on the page in Cursed to Wither. She’s technically a secondary character, but I don’t think Sandra got that memo. She walked into the story with far too much presence for that. Using reference images…
