I can still remember being 11 years old, walking into my Grade 6 classroom and noticing that one of my friends was holding a copy of a book I’d been seeing everywhere. When I asked her what Twilight was about, she responded, “It’s about a girl who falls in love with a vampire.” It sounds […]

Recently there have been talks about how the current boycott on Amazon (well, that and the decision of people to cut expenses due to the cost of living) has severely and negatively impacted the livelihood of indie authors. No, I’ve never been in KU (going to just get that out of the way upfront). But […]

When I was a debut author, I was presenting one of my very first writing workshops, and I wanted to use the opportunity to plug my novel. So I did what comes most naturally to any born storyteller… and I told them the story of how that debut novel came to be — which details […]

In 2012, I went on a holiday to an island resort, where I got the idea for Stuck on Vacation With Ryan Rupert. It came through me as a scenario I wanted to explore: what if my protagonist was stuck on an island with her first enemy, had a massive fear of the ocean, and […]

Throughout 2024, I spent a lot of time reflecting on the types of stories that I write and why I tend to explore these themes across my entire body of work. I’m not somebody who sits down and decides to write a book ‘by formula’ or ‘for market’ – I always have, and always will, […]

You might recall that The Retelling was, up until a few weeks ago, a monthly membership rather than a bi-weekly newsletter. When I created ‘The Retelling’ in September 2024, it came about because I was craving a space that I could pour into whenever I had big breakthroughs to share, new strategies to record trainings […]

As someone who is actively building a personal brand and is working on a range of different writing projects, I’m sharing some of my big, scary, audacious goals for this year. This is the year I’m getting paid to write and creating my best pieces of work. The year I’m fully diversifying and monetising my […]

Are you a newer author looking to publish your first (or next) book, but also wanting to ensure you give it the best possible chance at selling and reaching tons of readers? When I started publishing in 2016, I released my debut novel (Stuck on Vacation with Ryan Rupert) to an audience of crickets, made […]