A quick rundown of the best writing conference / Disney vacation ever with my family and writer friends.
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Jaelle: East Meets West in a New Kind of Princess
This is something I tell my daughter on a regular basis. Talking about race can be a difficult subject these days. Writing everyone the same in our books isn’t an option. And yet, we don’t want to say anything that will hurt someone else. There was even someone who told a certain group of authors…
A Curse of Gems Soundtrack
Here’s the Soundtrack that I used to write A Curse of Gems. I hope this ups your reading experience!
The Last Autumn Fairy: A look back at its emotional journey
The Last Autumn Fairy is the final installment of The Last Autumn Fairy Trilogy, and it’s been seven months in the making…and that doesn’t even include the time I spent planning and outlining the thing. If we want to count back to the first time the idea of The Autumn Fairy was conceived, we can…
The Last Autumn Fairy Soundtrack
As always, I like to share some of the songs that inspired me to write The Last Autumn Fairy. This time, however, I decided to give you chapters that I thought best matched these songs…not that you have to listen to them that way. However you like to listen to music, enjoy! Kiss Me Slowly…
Brit’s Fairy Tale Characters and Their Love Languages
For those of you who haven’t read Gary Chapman’s book, The Five Love Languages, you should. It was eye-opening to me and really helped me understand my husband and family members better. I learned that not only do people feel loved the best when they receive care in their main love language, but they also…
Before Beauty Theme Music
So I’ve wanted to do this for a while, but I had technical issues and it just never happened. The goal, though, was to share some of the music I use to inspire me to write my books. Each book has its own playlist, and rarely do the playlists share. The whole goal for me…
The Classical Kingdoms Collection Novellas
I have a list of fairy tales I want to retell. This list is so long it gets kind of ridiculous. Most of those are being saved for full-length novels, but there are some fairy tales that would be difficult to stretch into a longer book. They deserve their own retellings…explorations if you will, but…
In Cinderella’s Defense…
I recently a video tonight objecting to Cinderella. I won’t go into the entire thing (because it was reeeeally long), but the premise was that we wouldn’t read our sons a book about “Cinderfella,” a man who allowed his family to abuse him and then waited for a princess to save him. So why would…
The Before Beauty Soundtrack
Music is powerful. It has the power to change our moods and mindsets, and I use this to my advantage. For every story I write, even short stories, I create a soundtrack that’s specific to that book. I search for songs that remind me of the struggles the characters are going through, their tragedies, longings,…