Reader’s Choice Book Cover Winner!

I’m very excited to announce that With No Regrets won the New LDS Fiction Reader’s Choice for best cover! Not to sound ungrateful, but I’d really like to win something, anything, for the content. But hey, for now, this is fun too.    ...

2015 Storymaker’s Midwest Conference

This month I’ll be presenting at my first writer’s conference! And have to admit, I’m a bit nervous.   I’m teaching a breakout season on plotting, which is definitely my favorite part of the writing process. Below is the outline and...

Story Plotting: Leaving the GPS at Home

Every now and then I’ll hear a writer—generally an unpublished author—say that plotting is his/her least favorite part about writing a novel. Okay first of all, “novel” and “plot” are nearly synonymous. Without a plot, there is no novel, no story. So technically, if a...

Whitney Award Finalist

I’m very excited to announce that Count Down to Love was chosen as a Whitney Award Finalist! Click here to view all of the Whitney Award Finalist. Count Down to Love was also mentioned in an article at Dawning of a Brighter Day. Check back in May for a list of...

Submission Rejection Disorder

Recently, I received some feedback on my latest novel (Count Down to Love). First, the editor complemented me on my characters and dialogue, which was nice, but then she went on to categorizing me as the kind of author who tends to “tell” instead of “show.” Now I will...