Introducing: Pitch América

I'm SUPER MEGA EXCITED to announce I'm going to be hosting a pitch contest come August that will focus on Latinx voices!!! You can visit the site HERE. I love that the industry is trying to expand their welcoming to diverse voices and how important it is to see yourself represented on books. Not only…

The Guide to starting a Writing Bullet Journal

You may have heard of Bullet Journals -- notebooks that are transformed into daily planners for organizing life in a much easier method. In a way, bullet journals are harder to manage than daily planners, but somewhat also cheaper. Daily Planners are full of color, tags, stickers and what-not, all designed to be that way…

Just give me Unlikable Female Characters

Confession time: one of the first comments I got from several beta readers on my MS was how unlikable my characters were. Not only in one MS, but in 3 different ones. For a while, I was worried I was doing something wrong, until it hit me that not ALL the characters have to be…