I love kicking off my first in-person event for the year with one of my favorite pop culture conventions! Farpoint is an amazing blend of all the great stuff you'd find at any comic con, but in a smaller, more intimate setting that allows attendees to do more than pack into a ballroom or shuffle … Continue reading Farpoint 2026 Schedule
A Year in Reading: 2025
How did I do this year? Let's look at the stats! Total Books Read: 224 Note: Includes novels, novellas, and graphic novels Of those... Books Read for the First Time: 179Books Read for the Second (Or More) Time: 46Advanced Review Copies (ARCs) Read: 57Total Books Reviewed: 73 Now for the hard part...which were My favorites? … Continue reading A Year in Reading: 2025
Five-Star Reads for December 2025
Note: Reviews are listed alphabetically by author’s last name. Like my reviews? Buy me a coffee (Ko-Fi) support me on patreon I'll Tell You What You Are Cara Dee Dee delivers another short, sweet, and sexy take on the intersection of kink and real life as these two best friends finally give a relationship a shot…in … Continue reading Five-Star Reads for December 2025
Holiday Letter 2025
Happy Cottage Eve!! (IYKYK) The spouse and I leave for the airport in a few hours for the annual family holiday cruise. I'll be spending my birthday this year in Puerto Rico, where my goal is to eat mofongo and drink mojitos, which sounds like the best way to celebrate turning the answer to life, … Continue reading Holiday Letter 2025
Five-Star Reads for November 2025
Note: Reviews are listed alphabetically by author’s last name. Like my reviews? Buy me a coffee (Ko-Fi) support me on patreon Mutinous Relations Abrianna Denae & Leigh Kenzie (Crimson Bonds #6) Even after these authors have continually surprised me by how the relationships between the characters in their individual series have evolved, part of me definitely … Continue reading Five-Star Reads for November 2025
Con Report: Capclave 2025
Sooo... Capclave 2025 was nearly 2 months ago, and I am clearly very late with this con report. Long story short: I was really busy the week after the event, and then the government shut down. The stress tried to eat me. It wasn't pretty. I did have amazing convention, with panels and a reading … Continue reading Con Report: Capclave 2025
Five-Star Reads for October 2025
Note: Reviews are listed alphabetically by author’s last name. Like my reviews? Buy me a coffee (Ko-Fi) support me on patreon Lines Drawn Abrianna Denae & Leigh Kenzie (Crimson Bonds #5) The authors kept warning that the worst was yet to come, that this might be the book that broke their readers…and they might be right. … Continue reading Five-Star Reads for October 2025
Five-Star Reads for September 2025
Note: Reviews are listed alphabetically by author’s last name. Like my reviews? Buy me a coffee (Ko-Fi) support me on patreon The Fall Tal Bauer A surprise release by one of my favorite authors means that I dropped everything and read. And read. And then read some more, because while this book is a slow burn, … Continue reading Five-Star Reads for September 2025
Capclave 2025 Schedule
For my final event of 2025, I'm coming home. Metaphorically, at least. Capclave is both a local convention for me and an SF/F convention, which is where I started this crazy author journey. Capclave 2025September 19-21, 2025Hilton Washington DC/RockvilleRockville, Maryland I have panels on Friday and Saturday, so those are the days I'll be around … Continue reading Capclave 2025 Schedule
Five-Star Reads for August 2025
Note: Reviews are listed alphabetically by author’s last name. Like my reviews? Buy me a coffee (Ko-Fi) support me on patreon Xerxes Ascendant Adelaide Blaike (House Epsilon #2) I've been anxiously awaiting the conclusion to this story since I finished book 1 and screamed. A lot. Luckily, Blaike doesn't draw out that particular cliffhanger for too … Continue reading Five-Star Reads for August 2025
Con Report: Rainbow Readers Cruise 2025
I set sail again last week on the second annual Rainbow Readers Cruise! After having so much fun the year before, I knew this was an event I didn't want to miss, despite my packed summer travel schedule. With my favorite emotional support human/road-trip adventure friend, Rory Maxwell, we flew down to Florida last Sunday … Continue reading Con Report: Rainbow Readers Cruise 2025
July Wrap-Up & August Goals
I know it's been a minute since you've heard from me beyond book recommendations, friends. Since my last monthly update, I've attended book events on both sides of the country, visited my old hometown, gone on an Alaskan cruise, gotten a second tattoo, celebrated a short story acceptance, renovated my closet, and even managed to … Continue reading July Wrap-Up & August Goals
Con Report: RomantiConn 2025
After attending RomantiConn last year as Rory Maxwell's assistant, I was thrilled to be invited as an author in 2025! This event focuses on romance, but the organizers have done an amazing job of mixing various subgenres and gender pairings. Though we were only signing on Saturday, Rory and I made a weekend of this … Continue reading Con Report: RomantiConn 2025
Five-Star Reads for July 2025
Note: Reviews are listed alphabetically by author’s last name. Like my reviews? Buy me a coffee (Ko-Fi) support me on patreon Little Did We Know Cara Dee (Mclean Tales #1) After a dozen books in the primary Game series (and so many delicious cameos across probably a dozen more books set in the same world), I … Continue reading Five-Star Reads for July 2025
Five-Star Reads for June 2025
Note: Reviews are listed alphabetically by author’s last name. Like my reviews? Buy me a coffee (Ko-Fi) support me on patreon Remade Cara Dee (Hillcroft Group #3) This second half picks up immediately where we left the action in the first half, creating a complete romance and external plot arc by the end, but not without … Continue reading Five-Star Reads for June 2025
Con Report: Pride Litcon 2025
A mere week after getting home from my epic West Coast adventure, I hit the road again! This time, for another new event a little closer to home. Pride Litcon was a single-day book signing in Richmond, Virginia, and yet another new event that I hope continues for years to come. I picked up fellow … Continue reading Con Report: Pride Litcon 2025
Con Report: Queers & Quills 2025
When this brand new event was announced in spring of 2024, I submitted an interest form simply because you miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take. I was both shocked and thrilled to be accepted as a signing author to the first Queers and Quills! I hadn't been back to the West Coast … Continue reading Con Report: Queers & Quills 2025
Five-Star Reads for May 2025
Note: Reviews are listed alphabetically by author’s last name. Like my reviews? Buy me a coffee (Ko-Fi) support me on patreon Unmade Cara Dee (Hillcroft Group #2) Dee has lured her loyal readers into her latest romantic suspense series by promising (and delivering) a ton of the crossover potential that makes the sprawling shared world of … Continue reading Five-Star Reads for May 2025
Queers & Quills 2025 Schedule
Later this week, I'm hitting the sky to attend my only signing for the year on the West Coast! I was incredible honored to be invited as an attending author for the very first Queers and Quills, along with so many of my favorite authors and a bunch more who are new to me that … Continue reading Queers & Quills 2025 Schedule
April Wrap-Up & May Goals
Another month, another late start. I promise to try not to make this a habit. Lots happened in April, including two trips, a major deadline, a household milestone, and a long-time dream! The spouse and I briefly escaped to Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic for a long weekend with my family, where I got … Continue reading April Wrap-Up & May Goals