Irreconcilable differences & bonbons

Like most new writers, I wrote my book while juggling life. For me, life was a fun full-time career, an awesome family, and a long list of cool friends. In May 2016, however, the thing that ate up a huge chunk of my time came to an abrupt end: my career. And when you’ve worked in the same place for as long as I had, it felt more like a marriage unravelling than a job ending. In my case, the uncoupling was not only amicable, it was welcomed. Let me take you back to when my love affair with the […]

Fearless chicken-shit!

It took two years for me to tell people I was writing a book. I told my husband when I reached the 25 000 word count. It was spring, 2013 and I had already been writing the book for almost nine months. His reaction was, “OMG, this is going to be a trilogy! I can’t wait to see the movie!” He thinks I walk on water. But I stopped writing. Then, in February of 2014, I went to Vietnam on a three week trip by myself and started telling people I met there that I was writing a book. It […]