Happy New Year! I hope your holidays were everything holidays are supposed to be. I know mine were. December was a whirlwind of Christmas symphonies, tree-decorating, cookies, cocktails, and overall goodwill. While I did manage to squeeze a few words in, writing had to take a knee much of the time (I’m back at itContinue reading “December, 2017”
Category Archives: Monthly Updates
October, 2017
There’s something about October… Summer is officially over in the Bay Area. The nights are cold, the mornings are crisp. The sun sits differently in the sky. The holidays are fast approaching, and with them, the end of the year. While I enjoy the excuse to let my witchy flag fly, by the time OctoberContinue reading “October, 2017”
September, 2017: It’s Witching Season
September in California means one thing… …Hot, hot HOT. The air gets dry. The hills turn from gold to nearly white. The spectre of wildfire is always right around the corner. Just when everyone in the state is ready to cry “uncle”, the heat breaks, and the Bay Area tumbles into true fall. For me,Continue reading “September, 2017: It’s Witching Season”
August, 2017
The last month of summer… Where I live, August is the last real month of summer. School starts up at the end of it, so the first few weeks are a whirlwind of backpack shopping, trips to the beach and The Boardwalk, and last-minute weekend getaways. My own last-minute getaway took the form of aContinue reading “August, 2017”
July, 2017
Summer is winding down… Fall is my favorite time of year. The changing of the seasons always brings a unique, mutable kind of energy, but fall has a special magic all its own. It is a magic of opposites: even as the natural world is dying down and preparing for winter, there is a zipContinue reading “July, 2017”
June, 2017: The Vacation Edition
Wow! It’s hard to believe this is my first monthly update of the year. So far, 2017 has kept me hopping! Between book releases, my son’s first year of school (kindergarten, gah!), an awesome family vacation, and turning 30, I haven’t been on the Interwebs much lately. While I miss my online friends, it’s feltContinue reading “June, 2017: The Vacation Edition”
November, 2016: SPECIAL EDITION #MondayBlogs
Happy Holidays! Welcome to a special edition monthly update! What’s so special about it, you ask? Prepare your eyeballs, because today you get a super-exciting FIRST LOOK at the next Shades Below novel, If You Were My Vampire! You may have noticed I haven’t been around the Internet much lately. In case you missedContinue reading “November, 2016: SPECIAL EDITION #MondayBlogs”
October, 2016
Happy Fall! Yet again, I went longer than intended without posting a monthly update. If you were dying to hear what went down in September, my apologies! So here’s what’s up… In keeping with the whole updating-my-business thing that began during the summer, I spent much of September and October continuing to explore the best directionContinue reading “October, 2016”
August, 2016 #MondayBlogs
And now, back to our regularly scheduled programming… First off, an apology. While I fully intended to post updates for June and July, life intervened, and I wound up taking the summer off. As it turns out, I really needed a vacation. While this does mean my production schedule for the rest of the yearContinue reading “August, 2016 #MondayBlogs”
May, 2016
Happy Spring, bitches! Spring just isn’t spring if I can’t have a garden. For the past couple years, one of the most immediate and painful casualties of the drought has been my spring/summer garden- selfish, I know, but there it is. This winter brought with it more rain than we’ve seen since my son was born, andContinue reading “May, 2016”
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