Read Around the Rainbow: someone insults your main character! (Oh no!) How do they react?

Our Read Around the Rainbow topic this month is, “someone insults your main character—how do they react?” And I actually have a LOT of thoughts about this—I’ve written similar scenes into stories! (There’s definitely more than one in the Character Bleed books. One involves Colby’s mother. She’s awful.) Obviously answering this for ALL my characters…

Read Around the Rainbow: how to romance a romance writer

This month’s Read Around the Rainbow blog topic is “romancing a romance writer”! I actually wasn’t sure I’d have a ton to say—not because I don’t like romance; I do!—but because I feel like my answer is, as it is in many cases, “it depends on the writer/person in question!” I suppose more specifically what…

Read Around the Rainbow: writing plans for next year?

This month’s Read Around the Rainbow blog topic is our writing plans for next year! Let’s see… Honestly, I’m still trying to finish up a couple of things for this year (there’s something with a deadline of Jan 10!) so I haven’t thought too far in advance! But there are three things I’ve been thinking…

Read Around the Rainbow: Writing Advice I Take With a Grain of Salt?

This month's RAtR topic is...well, what it says above: what writing advice do you take with a grain of salt? At first I actually wasn't sure I had a good response to this one, because my immediate instinctive reaction was, "...all of it...?" But then I thought, well, perhaps that's interesting enough? I think a…

Read Around the Rainbow: Favorite Halloween Reads

For this month, the Read Around the Rainbo bloggers are sharing our favorite Halloween or spooky reads! I realized, going to type this post, that I don't know that I've got a ton of specifically Halloween favorite reads! But I do have one, which I reread (almost) every year. I could throw in a few…