Dear Reader, You wake up and check your KDP sales dashboard. You see a number. You’ve made a sale or sales. You’re happy and excited, overjoyed, even, because someone has just bought your art. Someone has paid for something that you’ve put your blood, sweat, tears, and time into. You go about your day. Maybe you write. Maybe you edit. Maybe you go for a walk. Maybe you go to work. Later, you check your dashboard again, and something’s off. The number was higher this morning,

Dear Reader, I know you’ve heard from just about everyone already, but I’ve been relatively silent so far. There are reasons for this. One, I’m terrified, like everyone else. Just to put that out there. I’ve also had some things going on in my life that go beyond books, but back to books for a moment. I’ve been incredibly busy trying to put out as many sapphic romance novels and audiobooks as I can for a few reasons. This was already planned for 2025, and my wife and I had

This blog goes out to all the reviewers out there. Authors constantly ask for reviews because we want people to hear how you feel about a book in order to, hopefully, drive more people to pick up a copy. Unfortunately, I’m not sure if all reviewers understand the weight of the words they type and put out in very visible places like Amazon and Goodreads. Recently, a review caught my attention, and I just can’t stop feeling upset about it. I rarely get upset about negative revi

I’m not going to say, “Stop killing your queer characters,” because if we want to be treated equally on screen, character deaths happen. They’re part of television, movies, books, etc. I get that. What I will say, though, is two-fold. Stop pretending like it’s an original idea that you and only you just thought of. Stop doing it after they have one actual moment of happiness in their story, like you’re doing us a favor. This isn’t news at this point, but we’ve had yet another

Doesn’t it always seem to begin with a megalomaniac’s quest for power and desire to have statues made in his likeness? If we go back in time and think about all the wars that have ever been, I wonder what the percentage would be. A man wants more land, more power, to claim something over another man, to take, to take, to take, and to make false claims and reinvent history along the way. If you’ve read my blog on book banning or subscribed to my newsletter and heard me tell th