10 SAT Words Both Teens and Adults Should Know Allegedly, is the story of Mary B. Addison, a girl convicted of murder seeking the truth while surviving life in a group home. She battles her past and present to fight for her future. And she must do ALL of this….while studying for the SAT’s. Sounds just like high school, right? Just for a moment, imagine trying to tackle the SAT’s with everything the […]
Character Interview In To Catch a Killer, by Sheryl Scarborough, the main character, Erin Blake and besties Spam Ramos and Lysa Martin hone their detecting skills through a side hustle they call Cheater Checks. For $10 this crew will analyze a stray hair, perform chromatography on a suspicious lipstick stain and even lightly invade a cell phone user’s privacy, all in the interest of catching an un-romantic partner in the […]
Playlist When I’m drafting or revising, I always listen to music. Sometimes it’s Pandora (my favorite stations – 90s grunge and alternative, film scores, and the swanky crooners of the 50s and 60s), sometimes playlists specific to the project I’m working on. I love finding new songs and artists that speak to the story and the characters and the atmosphere of the manuscript. Music inspires me and keeps me writing. […]
Author Interview I love the name Brienna! How did you come up with her name? I wanted Brienna’s name to be 1) Unique 2) Easy to pronounce 3) Reflect her characteristics. At the root, her name is derived from the celtic “Brianna,” which means “strong, to ascend.” But I also wanted her name to be her own, so I dropped -anna for -enna. Little did I know at the time […]
Character Interview Alosa, how did you come to captain your own ship? For most of my life I served on my father’s ship—first as a cabin girl doing the most menial of tasks. Eventually I moved up the ranks, becoming an able-bodied sailor and then second mate on my father’s ship. When there wasn’t much higher for me to go, I became bored. I’d learned all there was to know […]
Aesthetics Post for THE DISAPPEARANCES Hi ReadWriteLove28 readers! Thank you so much for letting me give you a sneak peek at my upcoming novel THE DISAPPEARANCES. I thought a lot about aesthetics while I was writing, so translating the imagery of the book into a visual post was such a fun challenge. THE DISAPPEARANCES has a mystery at its core, so I’ll do my best to offer a few of […]
Guest Post So, wWhen you are writing, how many times within one paragraph do you try to find yourself wanting to go back and make a change to whatever you have just written. Sometimes, If you are like me, this can happen happens time and time and time again within one a single paragraph. In fact, do you find that there are times when you seem to spend hours and […]
Playlist This is by far one of my favorite playlists, and several of these songs are on other WIP song lists because they apply easily to other character relationships. I can find Leah and Reed in each of these songs, running through the forest, or just in the quiet moments when they were together, lost in their own world. “Everything” is my favorite. It’s one of those songs I can […]
Top 10 Bad Girls I love really difficult characters. There, I said it. As soon as you meet Olivia, the main character of my debut How to Break a Boy, that becomes very clear. Homegirl does a questionable thing or 100. But Olivia and her best friend Adrienne come from a long line of girls who aren’t nice or likeable – girls who are too ambitious or care too […]
Mood Board for Cold Summer Like a lot of authors, I use Pinterest to create ‘mood boards’ for inspiration or getting in the right mind before writing. I like to pin pictures that fall in a certain category for each book; Setting, Characters, and mood—or pictures that help me write a certain scene. Today I’ll be sharing some pictures that I’ve pinned for my debut COLD SUMMER (May 2017). […]