WHY am I so attracted to brooding characters who smirk & lean against lampposts in the fog & have twitching jaw muscles… …bc I’m pretty sure I’d be creeped out if I walked into the laundry room & saw my hubby leaning against the wall, arms crossed, smirking through smoke…😆👻

When you’re writing a ballet novel & your MC is wearing pointe shoes & needs to run for her life, but there’s no time to take off the pointe shoes, so she’s floundering awkwardly as she runs… Plot problems. 😆📚🩰

I DID IT. I sent the completed book of my HEART off to my agent!! I want to CRY & DIE & CRY again. It’s the best thing I’ve ever written. So many Easter eggs, so much unique world building & emotion. Haunting. Beautiful. Please will an editor snatch this up!! 🩰💀🖤🔥🩰💀🖤

NYT Bestseller = No 6 figure deal = No Movie deal = No Recognizable name = No But… In stores all across the Nation = Yes Earned out = Yes Bestsellers lists = Yes 2nd print run = Yes Baby steps!! 💀🖤🩰🔥💀🖤🩰

I have a hidden superpower… …In the last 24 hrs, I’ve written a complete synopsis AND small pitch for my book. For some reason, those are easy for me! Writing the actual book is waaaayy more difficult! 😆📚🙌🔥📖

I just had a friend die of cancer… she was a year younger than me… …moments like this mess with me. My own mortality. How I’ve lived. Selfishly, I won’t feel complete in life until the book of my heart finds a home. But also… WHY have I wasted so much time stressing?! 💔🙏🏻💔

When you’re a ballerina & you write a haunting ballet book & your agent is doing a final read-through and says: “I’m loving it. I’ve been captivated through every page.” 💀🩰🙌🖤💀🩰🙌

Books I’ve written. Span of 13 years: 1: Fail 2: Fail 3: 7 offers of rep but never sold 4: 1 offer of rep, 2 pub offers 5: 3 pub offers 6: Fail 7, 8, 9: 3 agent offers, 3 book deal 10: Fail 11: Fail 12: 1 agent offer, 1 pub deal 13: Pub deal 14: Please sell! Never stop!! 📚⚡️

Sometimes I’ll post on my socials & completely forget that I posted something & when I open the app & see tons of notifications I’m legit confused until I remember what I posted! 😆🫠😵‍💫🫣🥴

My teen soloing her original composition “Ground Zero” at the Lincoln Center in NYC… This… THIS IS why we create. 🖤🎻🖤🎻🖤🎻 Full song: youtu.be/b6ZfNIT4sJg?fe…

Today is a unique day… It’s the day my little Spider-Man was diagnosed with APML Leukemia. It was THIS experience that brought me to writing… …But it’s ALSO my sister’s bday. And she’s the reason I’ve CONTINUED writing. Gratitude for life & ballet forever in my 🖤!! 📚🩰🙏🏻

The Stricken = out 25 weeks today! Fun things: —Top 40 WHOLE store at B&N —Top 20 Fantasy at B&N for over 3 months straight! —8 sold out B&N signings (4 coming!) —Earned out —“Most Anticipated Reads” at B&N —2nd print run —Cover of PW! —On shelves next to Sanderson?! TY! 🥹📚🙏🏻

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY to us!!! We met my junior year in Chemistry class… and we’ve been together since!! 🖤🔥🖤🔥🖤🔥🖤🔥🖤🔥

Signing this Saturday! Barnes & Noble Layton, Utah!! (They asked me back because I sold out so fast the first time!) Hope to see you!! 💀🖤🔥💀🖤🔥💀🖤🔥

Signing happening now!! B&N Layton, Utah!! Come say hi!!! 💀🖤🔥💀🖤🔥💀🖤🔥💀🖤🔥

Sold out my 9th Barnes & Noble signing today!!! 25 copies of The Stricken & 20 DOLLMAKER. The store wished they had ordered more! And I got invited back AGAIN. After 13 years of work… it’s amazing to be living this dream!! 💀🩰🖤🔥💀🩰🖤🔥

At my signing on Sat, my FAVORITE part was when a lady walked into the store with her mom and said… “Mom! This is the book I’ve been telling about. I listened to the audiobook. You have to read this!” She didn’t know I was the author! (For The Dollmaker!) 🩰🔪🩸💀🖤📚

Behind the scenes as a ballerina… 🩰 Behind the scenes as a writer… 📚 …As brutal as ballet is, being a writer has been FAR MORE difficult & mentally exhausting & heart wrenching & emotional & joyful!! Writers are amazing!! 🤯😵‍💫🫠🤗

Timeline cleanse!!! My 16-year-old’s latest composition. She wrote both the piano & viola. If I get a deal for my latest book, I’m honestly going to have her write a playlist to give to readers! 🤯🎶🎻🙌🔥🖤

EDITORS… On sub THIS WEEK!!! 🤞🏼 ONCE UPON A TIME meets BLACK SWAN, in which a girl is accepted into a ballet academy, and is thrown headfirst into a fantastical mystery, only to be solved with the help of a dark stranger. 🩰💀🖤🔥📚🙌🔪 #YouDeservePit #os #agented #onsub #YA