My blog has moved to FictionMeetsLife.Wordpress.com

It's been a while since I've been able to keep updating my fiction blog. As part of my renewed commitment to you, my readers, I will be doing more to make this site more awesome.

This weekend, I've decided to completely redesign my blog to make it easier, faster, and prettier, which means it has moved over to WordPress.

It has also been renamed, "When Life Happens," because the focus of my novel and short stories is essentially about life, and how we are faced with difficult decisions, hardships, and changes all the time, whether we're ready for them or not. I am also hoping to create more ways for users to comment and participate in discussions in the future.

Thank you for continuing to support my fiction career by following my blog here. Please be sure to follow my fiction blog at the new location: www.fictionmeetslife.wordpress.com.

Launching Blog #2: Our View through Tinted Glasses

I've tossed and turned over my vision for this blog, and last night came my answer. I strongly desire an online presence as an author, but writing snippits about my thoughts and my stories don't seem enough.

I happily decided to start up a second blog, called Our View through Tinted Glasses. With this blog, I intend to write about many of the key issues for which all of my fiction work is intended to raise awareness: domestic violence, child abuse, women's equality, relationships, personal growth, dysfunctional families, and mental health.

While my fiction blog will help my readers keep up with my work, my second blog will allow me to discuss a lot of the topics occurring today, which are raised in my novel and other published works. I picked this curious title because I think that we miss a lot going on around us due to our view on the world, affected by a number of barriers - the "tinted glasses" that make us believe that everything is just fine the way it is.

Thanks for stopping by, and I will definitely be keeping you posted more often on both sites. Please come back soon!

A Little Bit about Me

Who am I, you might ponder? Call this just a little "sampling." I am passionate about writing, an artist in any other way I can be (music, photography), and as quirky as they come. I will always prefer dark and dreary before sunny days, and my random quips and jokes are not made for everyone.

I was born in the small town of Springfield, MO and moved to the Washington, DC area about four years ago after graduating from Missouri State University. I'm a professional marketing/advertising writer during the day, and retreat to fancy flights of fiction every other chance I get. I love working in travel so far, but nothing could ever top the personal satisfaction in writing my short stories and my soon-to-be-revealed masterpiece (novel).

Writing is all I think about from when I wake up all the way through my dreams. Every twist and turn that life throws my way finds its way in my works. I'll even confess that I whip out my little black book in between stoplights on my hour-long journey to/from the office.

Curtains! Lights! Cue the Music!

Welcome one and all to the exciting debut of my fiction work! Pull up a seat, stay a while … it is my great honor and pleasure to invite Web bloggers everywhere into my world, where fiction and reality blend into one. I hope to humor, entertain, and entice your minds with my little bytes of fiction, daily quips and random ideas. I hope you enjoy my blog, and I’d love for you to post responses and give feedback on the things that interest you.

I created this blog to kick off publishing my fiction writings every way I can. I am currently writing a contemporary fiction novel and also working on getting my short stories and some creative nonfiction published in literary journals/magazines. For the past eight years, I’ve been building a strong career as a creative marketing writer (right now I work in travel), and I have aspirations to focus on my fiction.

Writing has always been my greatest passion for as long as I can remember – in my professional and personal life. I look forward to gaining an active audience soon, thank you for visiting!