Kitchen Renovation
For the past six months I’ve been living with a partially demolished kitchen while I waited for the funds and the motivation to finish the renovations. It was t...
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Monsoon Season: Process
In case you missed Claire’s blog, here’s the Q&A I did when Monsoon Season was first released in July: I caught up with Katie – sadly not over coffee, since...
I got mail!
The internet is weird and wonderful. I have made several friends through the website Authonomy, writers whose work I admire and whose advice I trust. I have nev...
Top 100 on Amazon.uk
Monsoon Season has a British publisher so a lot of the marketing is happening across the pond. For the last week, my amaon.uk rank has been phenomenal. I broke ...
Monsoon Season: Publication
My first novel was published last month and I did the following blog interview, “Recently In Print”, for the Out of Print Writing blog. I wanted to share it her...
Partial Book Review: A Short History of Women
A Short History of Women is a multi-generational family saga that focuses on women’s lives and how their struggles have changed (or not) over time. I loved the ...
Monsoon Season: Inspiration
My first novel was published last week and I wrote the following for a guest blog, Confessions of a Bookaholic. I wanted to share it here for anyone who missed ...
Monsoon Season: now in paperback!
So it has been a week since the e-book was published and I have received six 5-star reviews on my Amazon page. I just got permission from my publisher to give o...
Monsoon Season: Book Party!
The last few days have been a whirlwind of excitement. On Wednesday, the shipment of print books for Monsoon Season arrived: On Thursday, one of my best friends...
Truth vs. Fiction: Monsoon Season
Since my interview yesterday with Patrick Blackburn, I’ve thought a lot about my own use of the real world in the stories I write. Like he said, people often ma...