When I set out to write fiction in 2016, I had no idea the journey that would be waiting for me. It has been quite a ride over the last eight years. And as much as I love being a writer, I’m also still very much a reader! And I’m a huge fan and listener of audiobooks! I started listening to audiobooks when they were on tape cassette, then eventually CDs, and of course, now, [...]
So excited to have reached the line editing stage for my debut novel, EVERYTHING WE THOUGHT WAS TRUE! There have been so many signs that this book is supposed to be “birthed” into the world. First, I got my publishing deal from Red Adept Publishing on my birthday, then I got assigned my fantastic developmental editor, Angie Gallion, on my mother‘s beloved birthday, and I just recently got assigned my awesome line editor, Sarah Carleton, [...]
I connected with this group of fantastic local writers about 7 1/2 years ago in Davis, California. We’ve been toiling away at this writer journey on Monday nights at Starbucks, sometimes on weekends or weeknights at each other‘s houses, and attending writer retreats together when we can. On April 30th, one of our own, Lally Pia, published her memoir, The Fortune Teller’s Prophecy: A Memoir of an Unlikely Doctor. And we got together to celebrate! The evening [...]
