People Love to Hear It Storytelling isn't always on the page. It's in the way our voices fluctuate and how our faces express our exact emotions when connecting to a story. I've said it before and I'll say it again, I love telling stories in person. Seeing other's wish they had experienced what I had experienced gives me pride in my storytelling abilities. So today, I figured I would write two stories I love to tell people. They might not come across the same on paper, but I'm

In My Horror Era Lately, I've been in a horror mood. To be more exact, in the mood to read horror. Let me start from the beginning. I...

Word Addict I don't know about you, but when I stumble upon a new word I like to save it for later in hopes of adding it to my writing. Even though I believe in keeping writing simple and straight to the point allows a bigger audience of readers to enjoy your work, throwing in a fun word every once in a while heightens the quality of your story. Here are some words I've come across you should try adding to your stories. Final Thoughts Did you know any of the words above or ha

Cute Cover with A Cute Story Behind it I typically write an intro to welcome our guests, but with a cute cover like this and an...

It's Different This Time If you've read my past Random Generator Short Stories you know I take words, sentences, phrases, or names from a random generator to use as inspiration for my next story. BUT.... this time it's different. Why you might ask? Well, at the beginning of 2025, I had a thought about how writers always say to have an amazing opening first sentences to keep the readers hooked. And so that night, I did a quick writing exercise of creating an out of the box fir

"Don't Quote Me on That" Who remembers the time when you could pull a book off the shelf, flip over, and read the book blurb telling you...

It’s All the Rage It’s no secret reading is on a whole new level especially when it comes to audiobooks. Instead of getting to smell of...

A Tool to Find Your New Literary Agent I have to say it's crazy how far the publishing world has come in the last few years. Back in 2019/2020 I remember I was going to figure out how to independently publish my children's book, Princess Gabriella and The Never-Ending Kiss , but not after spending many hours, no make that days of researching on how to find literary agents who may want to traditionally publish my book. In fact, the only true way to find out where to look was t

Booker Prize Made Me Do It The header is a bit misleading. Was The Bee Sting shortlisted in the Booker Prize 2023 lineup? Yes. Did...

Want to Reach a Bigger Audience? Whether it’s blog posts on writing, cooking, traveling, or life you can take those posts and create an...

No Longer Published Back in the summer of 2021 I released a post speaking about the new Amazon reading experience, Kindle Vella. My Kindle Vella Launch Experience I was super stoked, not because I was one of the first bloggers to write about the experience, but one of the first people to upload one of my stories for people to read. In this case, I used a story I had written back in college, Team Lightning Versus the Virus (appropriately named during that time), to be the test