Plotting or Pantsing?
I’m going to talk through my plotting process and show you that there are no hard rules in writing, but like most art forms, there are benefits to learning the rules before you decide to break them.
Cover Deep Dive
How did my book designer and I create the beautiful wrapping that contains Speak with the Dead? I’ll show you, step-by-step!
An Interview with Myself
When did you know you wanted to be a writer?
My school ran a program every year when each student wrote their own short book, which was then entered into a competition. My stories started growing too long for the provided blank books in about 4th grade, and that’s when I knew I had a lot to say through written word.
Grief in Speak with the Dead
I thought it was important to explore those feelings and the way that people react to them in different ways in a setting and plot that keeps moving, just like the world keeps moving around us when we lose someone.