Happy Birthday to me! Earlier this week, I turned twenty-seven years old, which is crazy to imagine. Due to a heat wave, I didn’t do a whole lot physically, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t mentally reflect on my life. Never in a hundred years, let alone in twenty-seven, did I believe I could write […]
I submitted my debut novel to the Literacy Global Awards for a review. Today I awoke to the news that I received their five-star Gold Award. It’s an honor to receive recognition within the indie author community after years of hard work. While it’s not the same feeling as winning an award, it’s another step
The results from the 2026 Literary Global Awards are in! The good news is that my debut novel, Looked Down Upon: The Exiled Kin, was a finalist in two categories. I entered my first novel into two categories, Action & Adventure and Young Adult Fiction, in which I was a finalist in both. This is
Bookstores are the wonderland of the reader world. Avid fans of literature are like kids in a candystore whenever they enter one. Just like most franchises, there are bigger fish than others. In the world of bookstores, it’s Barnes & Noble. However, a new and local Bookstore just opened up called ‘The Signed Collection LLC‘.
Several months ago, during one of the book events I attended, I learned how to submit my book for an Indie Author award. Curious, I filled out the application at a reputable website called Reader Views. Afterwards, I received an email letting me know that once they read my book, they’ll write me a review.
I have major news! At the end of September, I had the significant opportunity of being a guest on a podcast. It’s called the Connecticut Book Festivals Podcast, hosted by Jed Doherty. Listen, it wasn’t done live, we recorded it, and the episode should be dropping tomorrow on Monday. It’s crazy the places that life
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This weekend I had the pleasure of being a vendor for the first time in my hometown of Bristol’s annual Mum Festival. It was a beautiful weekend, weather wise as it was in the high seventies and sunny on both Saturday and Sunday. Over the course of two days, I sold a total of twenty
Increasing your reach takes time, it takes marketing, and of course it takes money. There’s a saying you have to spend money to make money and that applies to independent authors as well. You have to pay for physical copies, albeit it at the discount, you have to pay for booths at events, you have
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Last week I was a co-counselor at CTYLF, which stands for the Connecticut Youth Leadership Forum. At CTYLF, teenagers and young adults with disabilities learn to unlock their leadership potential. I have history with this project as I was a delegate back in 2016 with CTYLF. It was a terrifying, but illuminating experience to stay
For the second year in a row I have been afforded the amazing opportunity of having an author talk at my hometown’s public library. In appreciation of publishing I my second novel, The Bristol Public Library has allowed me to speak about my journey as a local author. Author Talks are a little nerve racking
