Life, Act Two-sdays: Life Gardening
It’s June. Summer is here and the days are ripe and long. You may not realize it right away, but Act Two is the summer of life. You’re in full bloom. Your glow is bright, and shines long. You’re in the fullness of your life. And you still have a loooong growing season ahead of you. […]
Life, Act Two-sdays: Second Adulthood
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the series I’m working on right now. The WinterJacked series masquerades as a paranormal romance, a romantic fantasy, or a contemporary chick-lit/women’s fiction hybrid. It doesn’t seem to live comfortably in any of these genres, though, because its genre hasn’t caught on yet. I’m talking about the peculiar […]
Life, Act Two-sdays: Infrastructure
Infrastructure. Most people think, “roads and bridges” when they hear the word. When you’re into Act Two on the stage of life, infrastructure is the knowledge that those stationary set-pieces will be doing double-duty, serving as sketch-definitions of many spaces in which you tell your story. By the time Act Two rolls around, you have seen […]
Life, Act Two-sdays: Tragi-Comedy
Ever notice how most “serious” films, “important” books, and “hard-hitting” media tend to be depressing in nature? They either feature terrible people doing rotten things, or awful things happening to good people for no good reason. I have to wonder why? Why is senseless death so much more “keepin’ it real” than, say, the triumph […]
Life, Act Two-sdays: The Life Manifesto
Life in Act Two is where you, as Your Own Person(TM) get to declare what matters to you, and how you want to change the world through it.
Life, Act Two-sdays: Love The One You’re With
One of the liberties granted to me by entering Act Two is that I’m no longer so aggressively marketed to as I once was. Oh, I’m still chased down like a tired fox by a pack of starving ad-hounds when it comes to appealing to my motherhood and my skin elasticity, but I’m not so […]
Life, Act Two-sday: Making The Magic
If you’re filling your life with meaning, first you have to ditch the empty crap.
Rude Awakening: Book 1 In WinterJacked Cycle Launched!
Well. That was tougher than anticipated. Indie publishing is a wondrous thing, offering authors unprecedented control and freedom over our careers that we’ve not enjoyed as a group maybe ever. But it does have its lessons to teach us. One of those lessons is that a book launch is a process, rather than the event […]
Cover Reveal: WinterJacked Book One: Rude Awakening
Emerging from the cave where two years of my life have been spent working on the most ambitious story I’ve taken on to date…and really super-grateful for my amazing friends who are gifted with incredible talents!
Life, Act Two-sday: All In
Be passionate about something, and whatever that something is, if you’re passionate about it, do it.