Preorder Where the Roots Tangle from Mercer University Press at mupress.org/Where-the-Roots-Tangle-A-Novel-P1345.aspx Code MUPNEWS get 20% off Get tangled in hardscrabble Southern living, small town politics, blood feuds, nearly forgotten folkways, family legacy, and a dash of Appalachian magic.

Its time for the official book cover reveal for Where the Roots Tangle! This Southern Gothic is coming Sept 1st thru Mercer University Press. Get tangled in hardscrabble Southern living, small town politics, blood feuds, nearly forgotten folkways, family legacy, and a dash of Appalachian magic.

POV: Me encouraging writers to not be nervous about reading their stories and poems at the Broadleaf Writers Association meeting while I'm internally screaming because I'm going to perform one of my live short stories. Also thanks to FoxTale Book Shoppe in Woodstock, GA for hosting the meeting!

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Y'all! We are thiiiis 🤏 close to sharing the cover of my upcoming debut novel!!!! Where the Roots Tangle is a Southern Gothic that will be published by Mercer University Press on September 1st. More info about the book is in my pinned post. #author #booksky #books #writer

When someone asks me if I think I can be a successful author.....

Obligatory Daylights Savings Time is stupid and we should just leave the clocks alone post

I have watched this approximately 47 times and laughed out loud 47 times

The kiddo and I are caffeinated and ready for the Dahlonega Literary Festival today. 😁 Glad there was a cute indie coffee shop next door to the festival venue.

The face of someone that managed to get her first proof pages back to her publisher in a week. Where the Roots Tangle is moving along. 🫠💜😁 #BookSky

Today I get to be incredibly proud of myself. I finished revisions for my next novel (until I get improvement notes back). AND I put a copy of it in the hands of the artist that inspired it. Blood of the Dearest is Southern Gothic meet Dark Fantasy. I hope you get a chance to read it one day.

If being associated with Jeffrey Epstein cost Andrew the title of "Prince," it should cost Donald the title of "President." But we are not a morally sound country.

⭐ OFFICIAL PUB DATE FOR MY DEBUT NOVEL is Sept 1st for Where the Roots Tangle published thru from Mercer University Press! #booksky

Marked safe from having a tantrum over the Superbowl Halftime show. The people who pitched a fit are more worried about an American performing at a football game in a language that wasn't English than they are about the child predator they helped install in the White House. 🤔 Priorities.

I’m sure it was just Virginia and … oh, wait:

I'm so tired

Nothing says “I'm a writer” like the existential crisis of having 1 novel to promote, 1 first draft that needs revisions, 1 first draft in progress, 2 short stories to finish, 2 performance stories in progress, and 2 books you're currently reading And wanting to tackle all of them at the same time

I don’t want to live anymore. I can’t take this. I’m sick and trembling. Disarmed (wasn’t even holding the gun) Pepper sprayed Executed at point blank range. This is not law enforcement training. This is state sanctioned murder in the streets.

If your country is enabling thugs to extrajudicially execute people and then fabricating lies and demanding people not believe the proof in front of their eyes, you are no longer living in a free country that has a true rule of law.

Dear Georgia: Y'all get books or games or something. Your friends can't afford to attend a bunch of baby showers in the Fall cause y'all got bored when the power went out.

The short film based on one of my performance stories has been accepted to two more festivals: Dam Short Film Festival in Nevada and Love Your Shorts Film Festival in Florida. Adapted by Kelly Silverman & me Director/DP Tim Glover Co-producer David Silverman

Needed an updated author photo. This is what the publisher's marketing department preferred. What y'all think? Do I come across as fun but professional but relatable and interesting and possibly a good writer and omg this picture is going to be on my book, the book that I wrote, and ...

Too much of my life right now is at the whim of capricious, vindictive, selfish, shitty people in the twilight years of their lives who seem determined to make themselves the main characters to the bitter end. Anyway, maybe tomorrow.

I yearn to be in the tax bracket that doesn't have to spend an inordinate amount of time combing through coupons and deals to save $60 on a grocery list that I'll be stretching to make last 2 weeks. Are we winning yet?

I did it. I finally did it. I finished writing the first draft of Blood of the Dearest. Took me a year and 9 days, but its done! And now I have a writer's hangover. 😅

The world is going to hell in a busted hand basket and all I accomplished today was writing on a fiction story. 1900 words closer to be done with my latest manuscript. No closer to figuring out how we fix this mess.

Dear Trumpaholics: These people aren't your friends. They aren't helping you at all. They do not give a wet fart about you or making your life easier. It's weird AF that you cheer for their atrocities as if they're your victories. They may be their victories, but they're also everyone's losses.

"What's the flavor, my crispy cheeseballs?" and other ways I'll make conversations awkward, the novel and 8 part miniseries. 🤣🤣🤣

Y'all have some 'splainin' to do. How come no one ever told me how absolutely delicious these Zagnut bars are? And yes, I'm eating it while sitting in bed and reading a book. I'm opening my 2026 with ✨ intention ✨.

Dear FBI, I know I've been Googling some sketchy stuff, especially recently. I promise it's for a book. I'm just an author. I swear. 📃✍️😅

This is me.

I've decided I need more chaos in my life, so I'm submitting an application to be part of the Center for Puppetry Arts Xperimental Puppet Theater in 2026. I'm adapting a story idea I had banked that takes a familiar nursery rhyme mixes in Appalachia Folk Horror themes. #BookSky #LetsGo

I was definitely supposed to spend the day writing... 📖✍️ But instead I ended up playing 'If You Give a Mouse a Cookie,' cleaning edition. 🐭🍪 Yay(?) for being productive. 💁‍♀️ Boo(?) for not being the "right" kind of productive. 🤷‍♀️ The case for me having undiagnosed ADHD grows stronger by the day. 😅

“The only people who get angry when hearing service members being told to ignore illegal orders are people who intend to issue illegal orders.”

5 Movies to Get to Know Me 1. Legend (1985) 2. What Dreams May Come (1998) 3. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984) 4. Beetlejuice (1988) 5. Pan's Labyrinth (2006) Honorable Mentions: To Wong Fu, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995) Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) Ever After (1998)

Tonight's current plans include a little reading by wine light. Featuring Conjuror by Holly Sullivan McClure because it caught my attention at Everywhen store in Marble Hill, GA. And Prophecy Buttery Chardonnay because that's what my husband brought home.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks was one of my favorite movies as a child and I think that explains a lot about me.

For the record, I'm not a foreign bot. Which is exactly what a foreign bot would say. So if you've met me in real life, it was probably a foreign plot and not a very good one.

"7 million isn't that many compared to the population" (frequent comment about No Kings Protests ) Fun fact: you will only get around 4% of folks who are upset vocally complaining. So we can extrapolate to 175,000,000. Sincerely, A Marketing Expert with 15 years experience and a Sociology degree

People not showing up and just assuming I'll handle everything is exactly why I'm backing out of most of my non-profit commitments and have reduced what I do overall. Group projects continue to suck into adulthood, y'all.

Y'all find someone that looks at you like I look at my coffee... And then consider getting a restraining order. #ImKidding #Maybe #Coffee #Humor

If the coffee cup ain't this big... I'll still want it, but it's going to take a few refills to get me through the day. Maybe it'll fuel a writing frenzy later. A girl can dream anyway. 🤣☕😍 #Coffee #WriterSky #BookSky

So much talent sitting next to me at the Broadleaf Writers Conference today!!!! From left to right: Robert Gwaltney, Jeffrey Dale Lofton, Lisa Harrison, and me #livingthedream

Takeaway from a Broadleaf conference panel: realized there are more uncomfortable elements in my upcoming novel, Where the Roots Tangle, than I thought when I was writing it. B/c I wrote what was normal for me. Sometimes what's a regular Tuesday for you is nightmare fuel for others. #writerslife

Excited to be back for another Broadleaf Writers Conference! Some of my favorite people are here. Can't wait to meet new favorite people. I've been a writer all my life, but my journey as an author and filmmaker started at a Broadleaf conference three years ago. #writersky #booksky

Kind of want to devise a Tamarian like language. For example: Bolton, trumped in his halls Could mean being retaliated against for childish reasons with excessive abuses of power

Have another awkward bathroom selfie. As a treat. 🤣 Can I get some crossed fingers and well wishes? 🤞 Award ceremony for Cobb International Film Festival is this evening. I'm not expecting anything, but it'd be fantastic if we earned a little something with And the Moon Sees Me. #writersky #film

So I went to a film festival today. Enjoyed several of the films. What I did NOT enjoy were the ones that used being gay or non-consent assault as the punchline. Not cool. #DoBetter