Just Thoughts
Nothing in particular, just dong some thinking
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Your Girl is an Award Nominee!
*Dusts off shoulders* It’s Lit Literary Awards is hosted by Black Girls Who Write. A couple of days ago, they announced award nominees for each category. I was hopeful to have one of my books nominated in the Best Black Interracial book category. Imagine my surprise when not only was I nominated for that category, but also the Best YA/NA category as well as Author Queen! I am pretty excited, especially after last year’s disaster. *Cough* If you’re interested in voting, check out the awards right here! Voting is open until February 18th, so you have about 11 more days!
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New Year, Stressed Out Me
While it is only February, this year can get lost. Seriously. My cat died, then my dog died. I finished writing a four book series and now I’m sitting here blankly. I have two other story ideas that I need to write out, but I am slightly fried, so I’m taking a break from writing and simply doing editing on my completed works. In the meantime, I’ve been doing a little reading. To my absolute surprise, after editing and writing, I am finding that I am incredibly selective on what I read. For the first time in a very long time I have DNF (did not finish) a book. I…
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Every Author Event is a Lesson Learned
This past weekend I was super excited to be part of the Monroe County Public Library Author Event! I got to meet different people, as well as talk about my book. I also met someone as much into K-dramas and K-pop as I am (hi Joanna!). I’ve only been to two events thus far, but I’ve learned something from both of them. At my first one, I learned that while it is nice for my husband to attend to be my helper, it’s also difficult because he doesn’t really talk to people. He’s just there to to keep an eye on stuff. I need a helper that can chat to…
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Why Can’t This Be My Job?
When I was a little girl, I used to write stories. I’d staple pieces of notebook paper together and go to town. The first story I ever wrote that I can remember was about a lonely girl who made a friend and they walked to Wendy’s together. I guess even back then I wrote what I knew. I’ve spoken before of losing my writing. I’d tried in the past, but I hadn’t written a full story since high school. I remember the last short story I wrote during that time. It was for an lit assignment, and I had so many people’s hands in the editing that it completely changed…
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It feels as if it has been one hundred years
I haven’t been around on this platform, and I apolgize. Life gets in the way. I post a ton on other social media, while somehow neglecting this. However, I am here, let’s chat. July 7th is Femme Audio takeover. What is this? Well, my friend Ruthie is both an author and audiobook narrator. Last year she came together with a bunch of other femme audiobook narrators and Authors. Together, the narrators recorded pieces of author’s books. Not full audiobooks mind you, but just snippets of books. The voices they were reading were femme presenting characters who were standing in their own power. They are doing the same thing this year!…
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You Are Formally Invited to Shut Up and Write!
Each week in the Discord group, we try to run a writers sprint. A sprint is basically a timed writing exercise. You are brainstorming, writing what you can in a short amount of time. You can see how you stack up against other writers. We have a vocal chat open so you can laugh and giggle with everyone. So I would like to invite you to Shut Up and Write! Today’s Shut Up and Write included me and fellow writer Shai August. The next one I hope to drag fellow label mate Alexis Craig along. Also feel free to just pop in and look around the Discord. There is always…
