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“Is August really almost over already?” Yes. And it’s time for an author audit! I’ve heard that question repeated a bunch in the past week and I’m just as surprised and/or in denial about it as any of them. On the one hand, football and hockey season is right around the corner! On the other hand, how can 2017 already be more than halfway over!? Seeing as how this is the case though–and considering that

Happy Thursday August 17, 2017 and welcome to the Enter Civilands blog 🙂 Today I’ll be continuing on the topic of my inspiration behind the Civilands series with part 2 of the thread. Feel free to check out part 1, in which I talk about how this story was impacted by everyone’s favorite: Game of Thrones. Also, I am really excited to say that I’ll be expanding Enter Civilands to YouTube soon and have some juicy character bios in the

To start, I want to welcome you to the first post in my new segment Enter Civilands. In these posts I’ll discuss all things behind the series, including character bios, information on the world, and additional bonus content. Today we begin with what inspired me to write this series. Since there’s so much that goes into the inspiration and it’s also something that expands/shifts over time, I’m going to make this itself a multi-part post. So for my

Today I entered my first Wattpad contest, which was about overcoming odds. It had the following prompt: Your challenge is to create a 500-word short story about a time you felt successful, despite the odds being stacked against you. Below is my submission! It’s a true story from my baseball days and forever a great memory. The lesson is that hope is never lost until you decide it is. Enjoy! 11 years ago, baseball was

It’s the weekend and the editing process for book 2 has begun! I’m once again working with Refine Editing and going through the same three-stage process of manuscript assessment, line edit, and copy edit. What’s different this time around though, as I await the delivery of the manuscript assessment, is that I’m feeling the butterflies of anticipation. The first time I delivered book 1, I felt calm and was fully prepared for the high level

Over the past year and a half, I’ve been figuring out the path I want to venture on in life. Doing so has made me realize the grind of achieving your dreams is as difficult as advertised. While this is not a complaint or something I didn’t fully expect, it’s a hard road and sometimes you gotta vent out what you’re struggling with. So without further adieu, here are the things stressing me out at

Before I talk about my next big social media adventure on Wattpad… I’d just like to say that I’ve had more time to sit down and watching TV shows lately. As such, I plan on posting some of my thoughts on what I’ve seen in the coming days. Fargo definitely hasn’t disappointed this season (Noah Hawley is legend) so I want to talk about that. But also, Better Call Saul FINALLY caught my attention! Praise to