It's been awhile since I've posted here because I've been so busy writing, revising, and getting ready to launch my middle grade fantasy series, Joshua and the Lightning Road. In writing the first two books in this new series, I realized that my fascination with the possibility of "life out there" in the universe crossed over from writing dark thrillers for adults, like the Element Trilogy, to writing thrillers for kids. And my fascination has been there all along.
When I was a kid I used Read more [...]Looking for Doors to Other Worlds
It's been awhile since I've posted here because I've been so busy writing, revising, and getting ready to launch my middle grade fantasy series, Joshua and the Lightning Road. In writing the first two books in this new series, I realized that my fascination with the possibility of "life out there" in the universe crossed over from writing dark thrillers for adults, like the Element Trilogy, to writing thrillers for kids. And my fascination has been there all along.
When I was a kid I used Read more [...]
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I said “Thank you” to my mom today. I spoke it aloud and it hung in the air, a gift to her – now gone five years this month.
For in passing away my mom gave me her own gift – the gift to follow my dream of finding the stories inside me to be told. And with her death I discovered what forever really is and that our time here on Earth truly is brief. In that moment I knew I had to carve out my own happiness.
So in my grief I began writing and my grief turned to peace and then joy at discovering