When my alma mater, Bellevue University, decided to do an interview with me about Gift of the Shaper, I was over the moon. Most of you who know me personally know that, besides the Jessica Alba incident, I haven’t really gotten much publicity. There are a lot of factors behind it (mostly because I’m doing…
I’m still reeling from the excitement of doing my first book reading at Cannon Air Force Base library! They had contacted me about a month or two beforehand saying that the copies I had donated to them were garnering some interest, and then invited me to do a reading and book signing. After dancing around my room in excitement for…
“Gift of the Shaper in the Wild,” is a series of articles intending to highlight the people who are the backbone of the success of Gift of the Shaper: my friends, and the people who were crazy enough to pick up my book. I couldn’t think of a better way of saying “thank you,” so…
“Gift of the Shaper in the Wild,” is a series of articles intending to highlight the people who are the backbone of the success of Gift of the Shaper: my friends, and the people who were crazy enough to pick up my book. I couldn’t think of a better way of saying “thank you,” so…
One of the best things to happen to me recently was when friends of mine started sending me pictures of themselves holding my book. There’s really no feeling quite like it, and I’m hard pressed to explain it even though I’m purportedly a writer. (Although using a word like “purportedly” will probably get me beat…
A real, actual query letter I thought, since I wrote a guide on how to get your book published, that I would give a real-world example and include an actual query letter that I sent out to an agent. When you are starting to work on yours, feel free to use mine as an example….
One of the hardest things for me after I finished writing the first draft of Gift of the Shaper was figuring out where to go next. Now that I’m officially a published author, I thought I might try and pass along some of what I learned so that more people can realize that goal as…
Previously, on Gift of the Shaper If you’ve been following my Facebook posts, you’ll know that I started doing a YouTube series for readings from Gift of the Shaper. It’s my latest attempt to try and add more dimensions to the book by giving you access to my thoughts behind characters and my process for…
