Had a fun day researching bees at an Atlas Obscura event held at the Elysian Community Garden. It’s exciting to make things up then do field work and discover those ideas could actually work in real life. Score! And eating fresh honey? What a delicious writing perk.

We Were Snubbed by Our Dead Dog. Twice. was published in the New York Times. You can find the essay here.

I’m running for Secretary of the Women’s Fiction Writers Association. We have a margarita fountain at our yearly retreat, so, of course.

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Spent a few hours this morning doing research on a character in my next novel. The research involved watching a panel of speakers at The Ebell discuss the foster care system in Los Angeles. It was heartwarming to be in a crowd of people committed to helping children and families! Writing has perks and I…

On May 3rd, I led a panel at Chevalier’s Bookstore in the cool Larchmont Village section of Los Angeles in conjunction with the Women’s Fiction Writers Association. Topic: How We Got Traditional Publishing Deals Without an Agent. Also on the panel was Sarah Vacchiano, author of Soft Launch and Lindsay Marie Morris, author of Beneath…