*This post is part of The 3 Seas Literary Agency Holiday Recipe Contest! You can find a link back to their Facebook Page at the bottom of the post.* What could be better than a mere cookie? Not much…Except for a cookie with a surprise in the middle! Sugar Plum Surprises! I asked...
I write dark, emotional books. No fluffy cotton candy feelings in my writing. But still, I sometimes struggle to name the overall emotional tone of a scene, or label a character’s feelings. I know. I know. I’m a mental health counselor, naming emotions should come easy to me. In my defense—on a daily basis...
Words are powerful. When I’m editing I comb through each sentence of my manuscript, checking to see if I could use more powerful words. Sometimes there just isn’t any better way to say it than plain Jane sayin’ it. But most of the time, I can find beautiful words to transform my plain Jane...