reading for mental health
March 11, 2021

I don’t know about you, but I’m heading into the new year feeling at least a little less anxious than I was last year, but it’s not quite enough. My mental health still isn’t at prime production and it’s affecting my health. I’m stress eating and gaining the weight I fought to lose. I’m not…

karma witch whiskey witches
March 8, 2021

I’ve been writing Paige Whiskey and the Whiskey Witches for ten years now. She was a character I created right after some supremely hard losses in my life, and people either really like her or they don’t relate to her at all. I remember Mandie Stevens asking me if I was going to ever end…

March 8, 2021

Alivia flew up here last week to recharge. Our batteries were drained and we needed time to just sit down and… maybe do absolutely nothing, thinking we’d at least write something. We didn’t write a single thing and it was glorious. Writing and being authors is something we super-love, but sometimes it really feels like…

science fiction and urban fantasy books
March 4, 2021

Using Science To World-Build We’ve known for a long time that science fiction will sometimes influence science and that science will sometimes influence science fiction. Sci-fi authors typically love-love-love science, which is one of the major draws to the genre. Readers typically do, too. But some of us aren’t quite as brainiac about it as…

March 2, 2021

We work super hard. At the end of the day, for whatever reason, our brain fuel is spent. Our energy tanks are empty. And the only thing we can do is watch TV. Reading takes brain cells. Or, at least, it feels that way. It’s not as easy as watching TV. However, here are seven reasons why…

urban fantasy
February 22, 2021

In an effort to create amazingly good books to read in 2021, I took a look at where we were in society. 2020 was by far one of the worst years I’ve ever experienced. I woke up with intense anxiety every single day. It affected my real-life relationships. It affected my work and my book…

February 21, 2021

Breaking Whiskey’s New Cover! I’m super excited to reveal Breaking Whiskey’s new cover! I love the colors on this one! What do you think? Eeeeeek!! I am so, so pleased with this one!

lavender and massage oils
February 15, 2021

One of the things I really noticed while writing Slipping on Karma Peels was that the Whiskey-verse novels have really gone away from traditional witchcraft. Paige is more of an elemental witch (like me) and doesn’t do spells the same way Leslie or Alma does. With Wynonna, I was able to get back to that…