My Process of Starting a New Book

My Process of Starting a New Book

How does one start a new book? Do writers just sit down and start writing? I was asked to share my process on starting a new book. This is rather loaded because there are so many components to this. Whenever I’d get an idea in my head, I used to just start writing scenes –…

A Year in Review

A Year in Review

What a year. It started out in January–in the blustering cold of the Smoky Mountains with my fiancé and friends–where we celebrated my 40th birthday and I got engaged. In March, I met some of my best friends from the Jimmy Eat World group–and even met Jim Adkins in person! For the first time in…