In early June, I’d written myself into a corner in the novel I’d been working on since the beginning of the year. I knew right away that I’d failed with my outline. I didn’t have anywhere to go without making some major changes to where the story was headed. It… Read the rest...
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Two years ago when author Megan Cutler asked me to design the cover art for her first book, I knew there was a chance I could be doing art for future installments of the series. It was a little nerve-wracking, making sure I provided something that satisfied, but it was… Read the rest...
After a long and bumpy road, it’s finally here — Born of the Moon, the second book in the After Undeath series!
I’m so excited to finally share this one with you, even though it ended up very different from the story I originally had in mind. I wouldn’t… Read the rest...
Surprise! It’s a Wednesday bonus update!
There’s a special occasion for it, too: Born of the Moon now has a handful of sample chapters available here on Ithilear, which you can read by checking out the sample chapters link in the After Undeath series category to the left, or by… Read the rest...
This project has been a long time coming. I’ve been talking about the book in passing since late 2013, but since that was also my first year of being a mother, I made the difficult discovery that finding time to write wasn’t as easy as it used to be. I… Read the rest...
I’m not sure why, but writing and art go sort of hand-in-hand. Many of the artists I’ve known have also been writers, and the writers I’ve known have also been artists. I’m a little bit of both, myself, though my husband’s art skills far surpass my own.
I’ve been illustrating… Read the rest...
Now that it’s been blogged and some people have read it and messaged me about the story, it’s interesting to look back at the project that was Gale’s Gift. I didn’t speak much about the story before putting it out there, so here are some tidbits about the novelette:
Gale’s… Read the rest...