BLOG

A Modern-Day Knight

When I was younger- a long time ago!- I believed knights lived in castles. They carried swords and slayed monstrous beasts. Rode majestic horses. Protected kingdoms. Loved fiercely and fearlessly. Somewhere between childhood bedtime stories and adulthood reality, I stopped expecting men like that to exist. But then I started writing Jason Donovan. If you’ve seen the character inspiration photo I shared recently on Facebook, you’ve already met the version of him who quietly wa

What Readers Tell Authors (That They Don’t Always Realize Matters So Much)

After a book event ends, the tables fold up.The banners come down.Suitcases get repacked. And eventually, we all head home. But what readers may not always realize is this: Authors don’t come home alone. We carry conversations with us. Over the weekend, I heard readers talk about the characters they connected with. The scenes they remembered long after finishing a book. The moments that made them laugh, curse…and the ones that made them pause and quietly reflect before turnin

Ink & Espresso: Ideas Brewed

I just got home from a three-day book event, IRAE, and the best way I can describe it is this: It didn’t feel like an event. It felt like a family reunion. The kind with laughter echoing across the room, inside jokes forming between people, some who had just met, and playful back-and-forth moments that picked up right where we left off—even after two years apart—like no time had passed at all. There were stories shared, tight hugs, and more than a few play-fights that had eve