Author pals! Thinking about hiring an editor or looking for help with pitch materials? Here's a bit about me and what 2026 looks like. Reach out if you have any questions! 📚💖

Threads is once again on the Hot Mess Express and not working for me. Oh well! Please enjoy the beauty from my front yard 🥰

This is where we go when Threads crashes, right? RIGHT?! Anyway, finalizing the self editing guide for March's newsletter this weekend as well as a dev edit. Newsletter switching to quarterly cadence from now on!

Can't sleep wheeeeeeee

I forget I have a presence here. Oops! Life lately: busy with new job, chasing kids around, and avoiding storms when possible. Last night's was brutal in our region but we managed fine.

Good morning, I shared the following in my Editor Exclusive newsletter Friday and want to ensure more eyes are on it to announce some changes coming. Please review and let me know if you have questions!

Happiest of bdays to @rainbowdreammaker.bsky.social! 🎉❤️

BLEAK.

I really gotta get back into a marketing plan of sorts for my biz. It's been hard to balance anything the last two months. 😬

A prospective client hired someone to write a synopsis and query letter, only for them to *send her instructions on how to do it herself.* 😳 I am floored at how shifty people can be. Well, not floored because I've seen it before, but the secondhand frustration is real.

I promise to get back into bookish posts. With 3 of the 5 of us finally recovered from the flu the last week has felt like a fever dream (on account of, well, fevers and such).

I need to hold people's hands when I say this: Your voluntary choice to stop participating in a paying job temporarily is not the same as someone whose family depends on their income and benefits (like health insurance) experiencing a layoff. The things I've heard as of late...sheesh.

Finally got some good news on the job front! 🎉 Relief is an understatement.

I am this meme. This meme is me. Flu has found our household. Ughhhh.

Not me ruminating in the shower about the job interview where I was one of two final candidates two weeks ago and still haven't heard back. Why would I do a thing like that? 😅😬

I had a full conversation with my 3 year old as we laid on the couch this morning about what he wanted to watch on the TV, only to realize he's not even awake as he points to a screen I cannot see behind closed eyelids to request a video. 🤦‍♀️ Poor kiddo isn't feeling well 😞

I slipped in the mud walking our dog 😞 Good times. My hip will definitely be bruised later.

Editor Exclusive subscribers got a heads up on this news, so now to share it with everyone else! Each quarter in 2025 I will release a free resource. Q1's is a self editing guide coming next month! As with the news, subscribers get first dibs, so sign up so you don't miss it! #WritingCommunity

Ope I was going to share out what the free quarterly resource will be next month. Missed that deadline. I shall share tomorrow! 😁

Normalize dropping the "book girlies" language in your vocab.

Funemployment update: this is me every day as I wait on job application responses. 🫠 Thank goodness for my editing work!

Offer still stands to help authors with their marketing! My skills include copywriting, social media management, SEO, and more! 12+ years WordPress experience as well as book blurb and synopsis writing!

I had an amazing call with my son's kindergarten teacher yesterday. It helped during a week (read: month) where I feel like I'm failing as a parent. Turns out he's doing wonderful with classmates and listening, a total 180 from how things often are at home lol.

Would any authors be open to hiring an experienced marketing assistant part-time? I'd still like to continue with my editing biz but the job hunt struggle is REAL so I'm open to other work as well. 💗

Still freaked out about the message awaiting me when Tiktok was put back online for U.S. users. Even though I have 6k followers there I'm really leery of continuing to use it if it's not a propaganda machine.

Funemployment update: there is no update. No word on the job from the interview Wednesday and mostly silence/waiting on all other prospects. 🫤

Ngl kind of impressed with myself tonight. I knew from my day job how to make a ToC in Outlook with interactive links but tomorrow's newsletter is the first time I've done it in Mailchimp. 💪

Tomorrow my newsletter comes out, the first edition of 2025! 👏 I'll announce next month's free resource as well as the quarterly service discount (there will be a different one each quarter). You know where to go to make sure it arrives in your inbox!

Funemployment update: just wrapped up an interview where I'm one of two finalists. Now I go splat. 😵‍💫

Team Porcini on deck!

Today I am featured on a fellow editor's blog discussing topics that dev editors disagree on. 🎉Take a look! www.thenarrativecraft.com/post/what-do...

Imagine following writers and being upset they post about politics, meanwhile ::gestures at everything:: I can't sometimes with people today. It has been a DRAMATIC day on Threads but still, that is the last thing to find irksome in the current moment.

Not sure your pitch letter to agents is hitting the mark? There's a service for that! New for 2025, I am officially offering query letter writing and review as a standalone project or part of a bundle!

Lots of bookish community accounts need a diary or personal journal because these takes making fun of people's sadness about the Tiktok ban are not it. Inside thoughts can stay inside, people! 🤦‍♀️

Do you hate shopping in person or did your parent just make it a miserable experience that isn't that bad when you go alone as an adult? Asking for a friend (me, it's for me).

The winter break that never wanted to end has finally ended 🎉 Of course, the kids still have next Monday off but let's just focus on today 💗 Picking up a celebratory coffee, then errands and project stuff. Here's to a productive week after so many in stasis!

We're having a "one more time sledding down the hill" kind of afternoon.

Pancake update: oldest loved them, middle kiddo wanted cereal, and youngest cried because his pancakes had butter on them, then he ate some bites, then he got bored and wandered off.

I think I'm more excited than my kids to make blueberry pancakes for breakfast using a mix from neighbors given as a Christmas gift. Sidenote: they also gave us a small whisk which broke when I made the batter 😬

#STL parents this week 😆

No school for tomorrow. The kids have another AMI day (basically small activities per subject) and will hopefully go back Monday. Snow tonight means daycare is iffy but I'll play it by ear based on snow coming tonight.

Oh look at that, another day school is closed. 🙃

I'm going a little stir crazy having the oldest two out of school for nearly three weeks. There is a good chance they're not returning till Monday 😫

Full disclosure: I don't know what I'm doing here but I'm going to up my game! 😅

Here's a little something I created as we ring in a new year this week! I am so grateful for all the opportunities I've had to connect with the author community and look forward to what 2025 has in store! #WritingCommunity

On top of the nearly two dozen client projects I did in 2024, I'm happy to report that I read 7 books for fun this year! 🎉 Here's to 2025 leading to many more partnerships and less social media time to read for fun more! #ReadingCommunity

This Monday, don't miss out on a great resource to plan your 2025 author journey! Subscribers only will receive my rate sheet for the new year, including for my query letter service debuting in January. 🔗 in bio to join before it's out! 📚

Doing a lot better today both physically and mentally after the bad news about my day job. I'm going to begin my job hunt next month and keep up with my current editing load. Huge thanks to those that reached out ❤️

Today's a top 10 worst day of my life. 1. Stomach bug 2. Found out the company I work at for my day job is being bought out and I'm not along for the ride. Yes, there is severance but still scary.

It is the season of giving and my youngest child saw fit to share his stomach bug with me 😭