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Death by Gremlin
I almost died this week.
It was one of those moments when my heart palpitated inside my chest, my ass cheeks clenched, and I held on for dear life as the eldest gremlin yanked on the steering wheel and the car began skittering across the asphalt. Gravel crunched beneath the tires, and I managed not to yell any obscenities as my life flashed before my eyes.
As he got control of the vehicle, I…
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Cover Reveal & Other Ramblin’s
Cover Reveal & Other Ramblin’s
The cover reveal for Crown of Storms hit social media a little over a week ago, and if I was on top of my game, I would’ve posted it to my blog. But… life happens, and sometimes, we’re stuck choosing what we need to focus our energy on. Obviously, my blog did not make the cut. And hasn’t for a while.
Here’s the cover:
Crown of Storms will be released on every platform on 11.2.2022. The date was…
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#fantasy#mswritelife05#TiffanyBerry#YA#astraltravel#bookrecs#booktok#cos#crownofstorms#crystals#Dreams#lifepaths#romance#siblingrivalry#StrongWomen
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Frozen Memories
Time has slipped by, and no matter how hard I try to reach back and hold on to it, I can’t. Sleepless nights with crying infants… gone. Toys scattered across the floor… gone. Sticky fingerprints on the refrigerator door… gone.
And I don’t know where the time went.
My baby, my beautiful boy, is now a young man. And as he closes out his last year in middle school, I have mixed emotions. Pride. So…
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#mswritelife05#bittersweet#boymom#children#emotions#family#fathertime#graduation#hope#laughter#life#love#memories#pictures#Writing
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Death's Near
Death’s Near
Death whispers.
Its voice wraps around my heart and squeezes. Soon, another loved one will pass, and a piece of my heart will leave with them. Because no one left behind loses someone and goes unscathed.
Death stays with them.
Forever.
As time slips away, wrinkles form, hair grays, joints creak. And with every wrinkle, with every gray hair, with every squeaky joint, I am reminded of how precious…
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The Sidelines
Life is hard.
Beautiful, exciting, frustrating—but so damn hard.
In one moment, a person is on top of the world, then in the very next, they are at rock bottom, wondering how they got there. And as I walk the path of life, a path unique to me, I experience the highs and the lows. But now that I’m a little older, and maybe a little wiser, I see things through a different lens. A lens experience…
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#alcoholism#anger#family#father#grandfather#life#meaning#mswritelife#purpose#sadness#sidelines#Writing
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Al Cinder & Princess Charm WIP
Al Cinder & Princess Charm WIP
Rays of the morning sun filter through mangled blinds, and Al turns onto his side, blocking the annoying sunlight with his arm. A breeze taps him on his backside, and he grumbles as he sits up. His blanket was a size meant for an infant, not a young man on the verge of adulthood, but complaining to his stepfather or his bull-like half-brothers was pointless. Even though they lived off of the…
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Haunted
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#PRIDE#children#family#future#ghosts#haunted#hope#life#love#memories#mswritelife#parenting#parents#time#Writing
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〰A Non-Linear Life〰
I’ve been in this weird period of my life where I’ve been reflecting on everything. And when I say everything, I mean EVERYTHING. It’s exhausting. But I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing. I’m just getting older, my kids are growing up, and when I look around me, my eyes turn into leaky faucets. Because regardless of the moments of chaos in my life, I know I’m beyond lucky.
Not only do I…
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My Kid Needs a Trigger Warning
My Kid Needs a Trigger Warning
This week has been hella long. Even though work has been busy, this week has kicked, screamed, and clawed at the ground as it dragged by. Evil little thing. I had to smash it with a club a few times to get it to behave.
But enough about that. Onward to the weird part of my week. The part I shudder thinking about. Y’all, I can’t even deal. Just hang with me while I get my thoughts together enough…
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#boys#teenagers#dead#gremlin#humor#mswritelife#parenting#save#trigger#trigger warning#warning#Writing
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Pitch Wars & Team Velvet Steel
Oh, how I love Pitch Wars. But mostly because of the awesome Discord group I gained from tossing my manuscript into the mentoring program. Team Velvet Steel is a group that is a riot. From obsessing over Rhys in the ACOTAR series to Cardan in TCP to mulling over dark characters, they keep things entertaining. And amid all the stabby-stab characters, they create spreadsheets and praise each…
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Writing Group Shenanigans
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#art#critiquepartners#Dreams#friendship#humor#life#maincharacters#Manuscript#memes#motivation#mswritelife#Writing#writinggroup
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Love Fights Through It
Not a single picture hangs on the eggshell walls. A faded couch and recliner fill the cubicle-sized room. Legos are scattered across the vinyl floor.
Living paycheck to paycheck. Fighting for their family. Fighting for their dreams. Fighting together.
An official letter sends one a thousand miles away. The other is left carrying their hopes, their future. Phone calls, emails, and letters fill the…
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It's a Wee Bit Gremlinly
It's a Wee Bit Gremlinly #PitchWars #WritingCommunity #Parenting #Blog
Raising boys is like raising gremlins—cute and sweet one minute, razor-sharp teeth monsters the next.
In the midst of submitting to Pitch Wars, my gremlins decided to be a wee bit more gremlinly than usual.
As I was spit shining my submission package, my youngest gremlin mentioned he had written an essay in one of his classes, and his teacher was happy the movie Freedom Writers changed his…
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Beat Sheets, Helpful Websites, & Books For Aspiring Authors
I’m going to make a concerted effort to create posts with helpful information for aspiring authors. Over the years, I have read a ridiculous amount of books on the craft, stalked awesome websites with great info, and I have created documents to help organize my novel.
Helpful Websites
Creative Indie – By Derek Murphy – One-Page Plot Outline
Janice Hardy’s Fiction University – Show Don’t…
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#authors#beatsheet#books#reading#characterarcs#dreaming#mswritelife#novel outlines#ShowDontTell#tools#Writing#writing craft#writing style#writingresources
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Carrying You With Me—Always❤️
Carrying You With Me—Always❤️
Grams,
It feels like you’ve been gone for decades instead of a few years. There are so many times I want to pick up a phone to call you. To rant and rave. To gush about my plans, my hopes, my dreams. Instead, I take a walk and speak to the sky. The vehicles that whiz by probably assume I’m softly singing to myself. But I’m not. This is where I talk to you.
Sometimes, Grams, I feel like I’m on the…
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🧱The Echoes that Built Me 👷🏼♀️
🧱The Echoes that Built Me 👷🏼♀️
The echoes that shape and mold us into adults.
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Life is a beautiful, messy thing. When I was young, I thought I had life figured out. I blazed through each day, taking whatever path tickled my fancy and hoped for the best. As I became older, I realized I didn’t have a mother lovin’ clue. But through the chaos, the echoes of people, places, and events in my life molded and shaped me.
Growing up, my grandmother poured her positive spirit into…
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😱 Fear Fighters 🤺
😱 Fear Fighters 🤺
Fear can cripple you, or it can feed you: it's your choice.
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The world is a big place. Fear of the unknown can be debilitating. It can wrap you in its dark web and kill your dreams faster than anything, or anyone, else can.
But the best things come from the moments when we’re scared.
From the moments when we’re afraid of rejection. From the moments when we’re unsure of what’s next.
Fear can cripple you, or it can feed you: it’s your…
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#author#Dreams#fear#Life#manuscripts#mswritelife#Perseverance#pitmad#Query#singer#Travel#writers#Writing
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