Today is the day, my reader-friends. I've been talking about the cozy mystery I wrote for so long...and NOW IT'S AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER! Head for Murder (Head Rock Harbor Mystery #1) On September 29th, 2023, HEAD FOR MURDER (HEAD ROCK HARBOR MYSTERY #1) will drop and readers will be introduced to gay bookstore owner, cat… Continue reading Let’s Get Cozy

Unless you stumble upon an incredibly helpful fellow writer, most of us figure out a lot about the business on our own. When you're first starting out as a writer, you'll find that there is a lot of gatekeeping (intentional or not) that happens in the community. So, if you are looking to write a… Continue reading Murder, He Wrote

We're well into 2023. The Christmas decorations are gone until December, winter is trying to see itself out, and Valentine's Day is just around the corner. I suppose enough time has passed that I should talk about my next project. I think people who know me know that I enjoy cozy mysteries. I love Murder,… Continue reading Bookshop Mystery

***Before you read further, please be aware that spoilers for the first book in this series might be present*** As all of you might know, the sequel to BETWEEN ENZO & THE UNIVERSE comes out July 8th, 2022. Titled THE WARMTH OF OUR CLOSEST STAR, it covers the 10 years of Enzo's life following his… Continue reading A Tale of Two Coats

If you're a writer, like me, you probably have your experience with world-building. Even those of us who write realistic fiction have to build our worlds, right? We have to explain to our reader (without droning on about it or info-dumping) how our world works, even if our story is set in present-day on Earth… Continue reading A Whole New World(Building)

Continuing on with the theme of taking blog topic suggestions friends have given me on Twitter, @northie_writer suggested that I write about how easy or difficult it is or isn't to include non-cis queer people in romance stories. Honestly, I don't have a ton of non-cis queer people in previous books I've released, but an… Continue reading The Boy from The Barn

Today, I'm taking the "easy way out" again for blog day. Instead of rambling about some aspect of writing or my work, I'm going to share the first chapter of POSSIBLY, TEXAS. Coming out in March, 2022, POSSIBLY TEXAS is about: When his free-spirited mother decides he’s getting too old for a life on the… Continue reading Possibly Texas

The audiobook for BETWEEN ENZO & THE UNIVERSE drops today, folks! Beautifully read by Brian Lore Evans (the same voice actor who read A SURPLUS OF LIGHT) and produced by Tantor Media--I'm so excited to have one of my favorite books available in audiobook format for all of you. Those of you who enjoyed ENZO… Continue reading Between Enzo & the Universe Audiobook