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As I deal with our crazy world and all the things that make me want to rip out my hair, I was plotting stories in my world of NewEarth as a comforting escape. Since I am teaching again, I realized I don’t have time to sit and rough draft, so instead, I started reading The…

They say first impressions are important, and I am sure the dragons share that particular belief. Imagine that poor dragon, a new territory holder with a small clan of her own, going out to introduce herself to the new arrivals. She landed outside the chaotic mess of their containers, roughly imagining the edge of a…

Have you ever taken a long road trip and wanted to kill your fellow passengers, slowly? Imagine a month or more in a ship racing through space, a cargo ship, with a few modifications for passengers. There were 120 original pioneers that headed out to colonize what they would later call NewEarth. Only 117 survived…

One of the best parts of starting something new is the absolute confusion. The need to learn a thousand new things all at once and knowing it is impossible. So you have a small window with permission to ask away, make mistakes and shrug when it comes to light. after all you are new. Not…

I choose to find the good. It sounds simple and clean, but of course it isn’t. I write fairytales, not because I can’t see the bad, or because I think I am magically protected from it, but because bad is there. People need hope, they need to see the good. Once you start looking for…

Recently I have been working in sales. As a writer, working in sales is amazing, you see and learn so much about humans and what drives them in all their moods. But seriously, the most mind bending thing I learned was not to try so hard. Any one who knows me, knows that I am…

One of the interesting facts about the humans in my stories: most have brown skin, some have brown hair, most are curly haired. Heron has silver hair brought on by grief, Trissy has two symmetrical silver streaks, also brought on by grief. While my dragons have a multitude of markings, horns, ridges, and features highlighted…

Someone recently asked me if I was worried abut what someone else might think about a decision I made. It made me stop and think, not because I was concerned about what they would think, but because it was an interesting point. Other people have always judged me, often harshly, usually with no understanding of…