White teas are a challenge for me. Either I make them too weak or I end up scorching them and they come out bitter. That’s part of the reason I waited so long to get around to trying this one.
Persimmon Tree Tea’s White Guava blend is one of the… Read the rest...
When I was a teenager, I started pursuing art as a means to show people what my characters looked like. There’s only so much you can do with words; at the end of the day, a glance at an image is always better to show people what’s in your head.… Read the rest...
Now that we’re two months into 2016 and I’m two months into my current writing project, I finally have a few things to say about it.
I started working on Serpent’s Blood at the beginning of the year. I’m sure it seems like an odd choice, since the first book,… Read the rest...
After publishing Gale’s Gift, I received several comments from readers saying they enjoyed my descriptions of the sea. I hadn’t given it much consideration at time of writing, but the ocean is one of those things that proves your writing about a place is so much better if you’ve been… Read the rest...
With the release of The Force Awakens, there’s been a renewed interest in the lives of the stars from the original trilogy and–along with that–a lot of both praise and criticism for Carrie Fisher.
The complaints that she doesn’t look like she once did boggle me. I think she’s aged… Read the rest...
At the end of December, my husband stumbled across this character questionnaire on Tumblr.
Back in the days where I used to roleplay online, I saw a lot of these. But I don’t do that any more, and I don’t really use Tumblr for much, so I thought it would… Read the rest...
Today is my birthday, and growing older is strange.
I spent such a great deal of my life wondering what it felt like to be an adult, what it would be like when I got there, wondering when I’d cross that magical line and become some strong and capable person… Read the rest...



