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….
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Things I Wish People Knew About Lupus (Without Me Giving a TED Talk)
Living with lupus is like having a moody roommate who never pays rent, touches all your stuff, and occasionally sets off the fire alarm for no reason. I don’t want to give a TED Talk about it mostly because I don’t have the blazer, the headset mic, or the emotional bandwidth but there are a…
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…
Color Crush Series: Tyrian Purple
The original luxury pigment. It’s born from sea snails, worn by emperors, and still casting a spell. Tyrian Purple wasn’t just discovered, it was extracted, painstakingly, from the mucus of Murex Sea snails by the Phoenicians around 1500 BCE. The city of Tyre, which is modern day Lebanon. It became the epicenter of this dye’s production,…
Softness as a Power Move
Softness becomes a power move the moment you stop treating it like a liability and start treating it like a language. A language that communicates discernment, emotional fluency, and a level of self possession that can’t be faked. Softness is often misunderstood because people confuse it with fragility. Real softness, the kind you choose, the…
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…
Things I Wish I Could Tell My Younger Self (But She Would Ignore Me)
This is a bit of a love letter, a warning, and a gentle roast of myself. There are so many things I wish I could tell my younger self. Not because she was doing things wrong. It’s just that she was doing the absolute most with no information. She was a tiny chaos engine powered…
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…
Tiny Joys For Grounding In The Chaos This Week
This week has been… a lot. The kind of week where my brain feels like 47 tabs are open, two are frozen, and one is playing music I can’t find. But even inside the chaos, I kept stumbling into these tiny, glittery moments that reminded me I’m still here, still me, still capable of softness….
Color Crush: Tidal Teal — The Moment Everything Becomes Clear
There are colors you wear, colors you use, and then there are colors that feel like they rinse your whole spirit clean. The latter is Tidal Teal. It’s a hue that doesn’t just sit on the surface but moves through you like a wave pulling back, revealing what’s been there all along. This is a…
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