AAAH!!!!! I don’t even know where to start when it comes to sharing this news. Siena Saint James Is Not a Spy is now available for pre-order on Amazon !!! Or, the ebook is at least. The paperback and vocab versions will be available March 1! Exciting as this news is, I’m strangely of two minds when it comes to sharing it. On the one hand, Siena Saint James Is Not a Spy is hands-down the best thing I’ve ever written. Possibly the best thing anyone’s ever written. On the ot

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but we have a major problem. Our education system is an incoherent hodgepodge of asinine theories, and the result is squandering millions of lives of potential. “If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today…we might well have viewed it as an act of war,” the National Commission on Excellence in Education noted back in 1983. 40 years later, little has changed. U

When I was writing Ahead of Her Time, I used all the things. I Googled which platform was best, spent a bunch of money on Scrivener, never fully figured out how to use it, etc. Now, I’m a firm believer in doing what works best for you, so this is just my experience. But in writing book two (which I’m still fondly referring to as “Untitled Spy Book”), I’m making things wayyyyy simpler…Like, so simple, I’m writing it in Google Docs. And I must say, it’s made the process simple

They say history is stranger than fiction, and nowhere is that more true that in the case of Agatha Christie. She may be one of the most...

Let’s preface this by saying that everyone’s tastes are different! I’m not saying these books are objectively bad, just that I personally...

Did you know some of the foundational science behind WiFi, Bluetooth, and other modern technology was developed by a Hollywood bombshell...

You’re probably familiar with the legends of werewolves and madmen emerging from the dark on a full moon…but did you know that this legend is so pervasive, it actually made an impact on the English language? Yes, my friends. The word “lunatic,” among others, is directly pulled from the Latin root luna , for moon! In episode 61 of the Vocabbett podcast, I dive into some of the theories as to why this belief existed, and I also share a brilliant writing tip from Neil Gaiman’s

Psst...Definitions for words in bold can be found at the bottom of the post. Depending on how current events- savvy you are, you may have heard talk of inflation lately. But…what is inflation, exactly? And what do you need to know about it? Basically, inflation is when your expenses go up faster than your purchasing power. I’m not talking about expenses going up because you went on a spending spree. Inflation is when the same items become more expensive in back-to-back ye

In case you didn’t already know, I have a strange passion for etymology. It’s fascinating to study how words change and grow over time,...