Cover reveal

My poetry collection, Muddy-Fingered Midnights, is getting ever closer to ready. Here's my cover design, which was all kinds of fun (and hair-pulling hard) to design. Let's just...

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Ritual: it's what's for dinner

When I was a kid, one of the most interesting things about staying at friends' houses was discovering just how differently their families approached the evening meal. My family...

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An exciting announcement

Photo: earl53 from morguefile.com I've been hard at work putting together my first-ever poetry collection. It includes select pieces from my undergrad days...

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Faith in Fiction: The Decision

More or less faith on the page? by Tyrean Martinson, author of Champion in the Darkness As writers, our beliefs are an integral part of what we write. We can’t really help...

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Kissing blogfest

Just in time for today's "Indie Kissing" blogfest, Every Day Poets published my poem about my first kiss. NORTH AND SOUTH That splish-splash summer night you chose me with...

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Interview...and chance to win

I've been interviewed by book blogger Brandi Kosiner at the popular review blog Blkosiner's Book Blog.  Learn a bit about me, inspirations for my debut novel, as well...

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The Joys of Working with an Editor

By Charity Bradford, author of The Magic Wakes Working with my editor was perhaps the most exciting part of this publishing process. Amie provided a wonderful mix of honesty...

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Close, but no cigar: using then and than, lose and loose

It's Phonics Friday once again, and today I'm addressing two pairs of words a reader asked me to discuss. These pairs perplexed me a bit, because they aren't actually homophones....

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Using colour to accentuate theme by Jessica Bell

I'm delighted to have special guest Jessica Bell here to talk about how she develops and uses colors symbolically in her work. I love this of this sort of leitmotif in fiction,...

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The lead or the law? Principal and principle

It's Phonics Friday once again, and I'm here to tackle a pair of homophones I've frequently seen mixed up, even in published books and newspapers--and on a billboard...

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