I gave my last final exam on Friday, 5/28, at 10:15 am, from my kitchen counter. I passed by the screen to check in on my one student in...

Querying sucks. It just does. It’s a deeply vulnerable and emotional process in which you expose yourself for judgement and...

Thanks to the book "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No-good, Very Bad Day," I had, lets say... an affinity for Australia as a...

In 2014, I started a new job teaching ninth grade Literature at a school for advanced STEM students. It was (And still is, for the...

As we know from THIS POST, I was once revision-averse. I was also incredibly arrogant and felt nobody had the right to tell me how to...

Hi there! So you're considering applying to Write Mentor? FANTASTIC! This program is such an incredible opportunity to grow your craft...

Marisa is an incredible mentor and writer, and her novel THE SHADOW KEEPERS comes out 7/30/2019. Buy it here!

On the first day back from mid-winter break, I asked my students to take a few minutes and think about what they did for themselves...

It's February! Love month! Except I missed out on doing a Valentine-themed post... BUT the love doesn't end yet because February is my...

I was lucky enough to receive an E-ARC of this awesome book, so consider this some early advertisement! It comes out January 29, and you...

And now for something completely different... I was tagged by Ariel from wavesofpages.com to do this Holiday drinks book tag! Check out...

As an English teacher, I’m biologically programmed to love certain books. Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies, and Shakespeare...

I had the honor of working on my novel with Candace through the Write Mentor program. Here is my review of her book Quinsey Wolfe's Glass...

As a lonely youngest-child with imaginary friends and an invisible flavored air dispenser in my backyard, it’s no secret that I was a bit...

Fun fact: My world is full of incomplete journals because I can’t keep a commitment to writing. I have finished a journal before, but for...

I. Love. Tim. Gunn. He is by far the best part of Project Runway, next to the incredible artistry, of course. When I saw his name as a...