I just received our son’s school supply list yesterday. I can’t believe it! In just a few weeks, we'll be back to morning drop-offs, school lunches, and the fine art of juggling sport practices and homework. It feels like we should have much more summer left than we...

What if you had all the time in the world and money was no object? How would you spend the last few weeks of your summer? Here are a few ideas I think my pop star YA character Dani Truehart would fully approve of: Membership Has Its Privileges Sign up for a membership...

Books Are A Summer Necessity! I suspect I’m not the only writer with a TBR (“To Be Read” for those rare unicorns who have not discovered the joy of books ) stack almost as tall as I am. My book reading list is always very ambitious, but life and writing usually get in...

A Few Marketing Tips For Authors Looking to Sell Their Books My First Book Signing Event at Barnes & Noble in Aliso Viejo, CA I find myself in a constant tug of war between writing and marketing. I’m either writing/editing a project or doing whatever I can to...

My Mickey Mouse record player and collection of read-a-long Golden books on record, a road trip to the Grand Canyon, watching old movies in my pajamas with my mom and sister, sock fights and the terror I felt whenever the heater shuddered to life when it turned on at...

Is it just me or does it seem that in the beginning of June the summertime feels endless and full of infinite possibilities now that I'm free from the school year drudgery of making lunches and inspecting homework? While I still have bills to pay, meals to cook and a...