There comes a moment in every book draft where your characters are no longer just names in a Google Doc and you begin to realize they’re roommates in your brain. They have opinions. They have emotional allergies. They have better boundaries than you on a Tuesday afternoon. And suddenly, you’re not just writing a story….
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Killer Heels Saturdays — Chapter Four: Plotting in Lipstick — Building a Story That Slays
There comes a moment in every writer’s life when you look at your cute little premise, your shiny protagonist, your Pinterest board full of vibes, and you whisper, “Okay… but what actually happens?” Welcome to Plotting in Lipstick, the chapter where I finally admit that a book is not, in fact, a 300‑page mood board….
Killer Heels Saturdays- Chapter Three: Author Branding In Killer Heels
Crafting your public persona, aesthetic, and emotional tone as a writer is extremely important. There’s a moment in every writer’s journey when you realize you’re not just writing a book. You realize you’re also, somehow, writing yourself. One chapter you’re wrestling with plot holes, and the next you’re wondering if your author photo should include…
Killer Heels Saturdays- Chapter Two: When Your Protagonist Has Better Boundaries Than You
Here’s to a Saturday confession from a woman whose fictional heroine is somehow more emotionally stable than she is. There comes a moment in most writer’s lives when you realize, slowly, painfully, with a sip of ice cold water, that your protagonist is living a healthier emotional life than you are. She’s fictional. She’s made…
Killer Heels Saturday – Chapter One: She Had a Premise and a Pair of Pumps
Every book begins with a spark. Not a polite spark either but more like the kind that snaps, hisses, and threatens to burn your eyebrows off if you ignore it. This week we’re talking about the moment the idea for my book was born. The genre. The themes. The characters who started whispering in my…
Behind The Heels
Killer Heels “Stiletto” If you’ve been around for about 5 minutes you know I love a good reveal. A good rot day in bed. A good lemonade refresher from Starbucks and an oversized cable knit sweater. So welcome to my world of chaos and a sort of behind the curtain of writing my first book. I…
Art Interrupted
I’ve been asked a few times now why I would add writing to my already overflowing plate. There’s a few different answers I’ve given but it kind of just boils down to…. Because I can. Between my full time job in intellectual property, rebuilding my digital footprint and small business 6 years after walking away,…
My Visual Calling Card
Artists typically have a signature. It’s not necessarily an actual signature but more of a thing that’s identifiable to everyone else. Think Van Goghs swirling brush strokes or Yayoi Kusama’s signature polka dots. Kusama is the reason I got into the creative world and started playing with bold colors. Her art was the first thing I saw that invoked a feeling. I knew immediately I needed to play with colors, and I knew immediately I needed to incorporate her in my home. I’ve followed…
The Unglamourous Side Of Creative Work
When people imagine creative work, a lot of time they often picture the glamourous parts. The polished final products, the big reveal, and the applause. What they don’t see is the exhausting, messy, and often discouraging process that happens behind the scenes. The real story is more about late nights, rewrites, and rejection, and those…
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