Jan 23, 2025 | burnout, career, creativity, mental health, writing
It happens to all of us at some point. Your creative train is merrily chugging away and you, the engineer in the driver’s seat, are enjoying the beautiful mountain vistas. The train takes care of itself; it’s on a kind of autopilot at this point in your life. You take...
May 13, 2020 | adult romance, lily menon
The news is out! My new adult romance, MAKE UP BREAK UP, will be out under a pseudonym, or pen name! The name I’ve chosen is Lily Menon. A few readers have asked why I chose to write under a pen name. After all, MAKE UP BREAK UP is very much in the vein of my YA...
Apr 24, 2020 | creativity, quarantine, writing
Now that we’re almost to the point where some states–mine included–are beginning to reopen services (ahem, no comment), I feel more equipped to speak about creating while the entire world has gone completely stark raving mad. Let me preface this,...
Feb 25, 2020 | career, of curses and kisses, writing
I am now the published author of FOUR whole novels, to be FIVE later this year. Exclamation points! Happiness! Excitement! Gratitude! Wonder! Those are all the feelings erupting in my brain, in case you were wondering. But “exclamation points” isn’t...
May 23, 2019 | there's something about sweetie, writing
Welcome to my annual blog post! 🙂 I was reading an article the other day that said writers with three or more books published are considered “mid-career” authors. They’ve established they’re not flash-in-the-pan, one-hit wonders, but rather...
