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May 2023 Update

I wanted to take a moment to fill you in on what’s been happening over the past few months. If you noticed my absence from social media and publishing, it’s because I’ve been dealing with a detached retina. It’s been a challenging and eye-opening experience (pun intended), but I’m happy to report that I’m on the road to recovery, with just one more surgery to go. During my healing process, I’ve had the opportunity to reflect on my love for storytelling...

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Self-care and the lessons of a child

I was talking about writer’s burnout yesterday and self-care is really the only antidote, though by the time we decide to practice self-care, we’re usually well into the burnout phase and trying to grab a little me time is a bit like applying a Band-Aid to a lobotomy.  Nevertheless, you gotta do it. Without self care, we continue to feel shitty, we get depressed, we feel tapped, and generally overwhelmed by having to perform any task, let alone those that require a creative...

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Writer’s Burnout

So it’s a gorgeous day here in Victoria. I’m standing in my kitchen, sipping a cup of tea, and planning the rest of my week. What I should be doing is writing Book 10 of Claire and the Lady Billionaire, but what I have been doing is working on my website since I realized yesterday that the last time I updated it was just after I published Falling for Lucky which was back in December of 2018. It’s a funny thing to have once been a web designer, a web marketer, and an SEO...

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New Blog? What I’m working on…

So, I’ve realized that I don’t share a lot about myself and what I’m working on, and I thought I would start trying to do that more. Right now, I’m in the process of trying to spruce up my website and make it look a little more like a place you’d want to visit, with more stuff, that’s all easier to navigate. Part of me has always resisted having a blog simply because, by nature, a blog is something you have to do with frequency and with commitment and...

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