I hope we can all be brave, hold each other up, grab each other’s hands and make something good today.
If you’ve read my Be Brave Friday posts before, you know I have a hard time sharing my art because … parents. I love them and they were great humans, but they laughed off my artistic tendencies, which is fine! You can only look at your kid’s Snoopy and Garfield crayon drawing so many times.
I can still hear my mom’s voice say, “Nobody in this family has an artistic bone in their body.”
That resonated.
And somehow sharing art always makes me feel so vulnerable. Here’s what I’m working on right now.

Speaking of vulnerable, I’m starting to publish a whole slew of books myself because it’s:
- A challenge
- Fun because it’s a challenge
- Terrifying.
- I am apparently addicted to stress and to writing. Who knew? Everyone. Everyone knew.
Keeps me more connected with my readers than traditional publishing.
I am still going to be traditional publishing! Do not worry!
But putting out books all by myself? It’s weirdly empowering and absolutely terrifying and I’m all about evolving, right? I mean, I don’t have a ton of time left on the Earth so I need to make the most of it.

The second book in the Bar Harbor Rose Mystery series is called THE PEOPLE WHO KILL.
You can read an excerpt here. I had the best time writing it. You can preorder it here.
Sometimes it seems like everyone wants someone to die . . . .
After dealing with a serial killer and a long Maine winter, Rosie Jones is ready for a little bit of calm in her adopted coastal Maine town. Then Ernie Emerson, a ladies man and newly married cop, is bludgeoned to death outside a summer estate in what many think was a robbery gone wrong.
But Rosie soon realizes that a lot of people, including the fired town manager, had some pretty powerful reasons to want Ernie dead.
The death of Ernie brings a whole lot of repercussions for Rosie. She might be losing her reporting job. There’s all kinds of tension with her still-not-divorced, sort-of-boyfriend, Seamus Kelley, and her snooping is potentially making her the killer’s next target.
Hoping to solve the crime before she gets hurt any more, Rosie starts to put the pieces together. But that’s not that easy when nobody, including Seamus, wants her to do law enforcement’s job and solve the murder of one of their own.
Upcoming Books! See I’m committed! And it’s so scary!
July – THOSE WHO SURVIVED – YA murder mystery.
August – A YA paranormal
September – The sequel to July’s murder mystery! So YA/NA mystery.
October – THE TREASURES WE HIDE.
November – Adult paranormal
December – YA paranornal
Oh! And check out podcasts when you get a chance. There are writing tips and life tips on DOGS ARE SMARTER THAN PEOPLE and just a freer flow of weirdness on our very live LOVING THE STRANGE. Tonight at 7 p.m. EST, we’ll be going a bit deeper into alien abductions.
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