Becoming an Author

As many of you have probably noticed over the last few days, I can now officially say Sink or Swim is available for purchase! I was hoping this was the blog I would have had for y\’all last week, but this is okay too. Gotta keep you on your toes, right?? You can purchase an […]

Well, I was hoping in this blog post I\’d have all the links for you to purchase a printed copy or an eBook copy of Sink or Swim, but unfortunately, I\’ve hit another snag. 🙁 After the Hospital Hill Run this morning, I was excited to get home and get cleaned up and get to

If you follow my other social media pages, you’ve probably heard by now that I officially have a publish date for Sink or Swim: June 12th, one week from today!!!!! If you read last week’s post, you got the update that I was simply waiting for my cover designer to make a few adjustments to

Well, after over a month of anxiously awaiting news from my copy editor, I finally got my manuscript back!! She sent it to me last Friday evening, and even though it was getting late and I had to run a half marathon the next day, I immediately had to sit down and see what she

Well, I have some big news for my upcoming novel, Sink or Swim! I hired a copy editor last weekend – this is the FINAL stage of big edits! She\’s going to check for grammar errors, fact check anything that needs to be fact checked, and make sure I am consistent throughout my entire story.

“Great job tonight, guys!” Coach Tanner clapped as my teammate, Landon, and I clung to the side of the pool, still trying to catch our breath. “That was a tough set, and I loved seeing the effort you put into it. For that, I’m ending practice early tonight.”  I shot a glance at the clock

Well, as promised my editor got back to me this week with my manuscript and her feedback, and I have both good news and bad news. The good news is that she genuinely liked my book, and she said my writing was very smooth and natural. She pointed out a few weak spots in my

As many of you probably know by now, I\’m cruising at full speed towards becoming a self-published author. My editor started going through my manuscript on Tuesday, and hopefully by the middle of next week, I\’ll have her comments back to me. I\’m both extremely excited and terrified! I know there are going to be

Figured it was time for a little update on my book writing journey! In the last blog post about it, I mentioned that I was waiting for feedback from a couple of beta readers before I would be about done. For those who don\’t know what beta readers are, essentially they are total strangers who

I am so, so pumped and I have to tell y\’all why! This week, I finished the final read through of my first novel, Sink or Swim. I sent it off to two beta readers, who have promised to return feedback to me within the next two weeks, and as long as they don\’t point