Little Love Stories Podcast
5 Reasons to Channel Rage Through Writing
Helplessness is an awful feeling, as if we are at the mercy of something big and scary, with nowhere to turn. For today, may I humbly suggest writing out that anger, sadness, rage and helplessness. Here’s why: Setting your mind to express the exact feelings you’re feeling can begin the act of processing. You can give...
Writing as Unearthing + TWO Ways to Work with Me
From about 2011 until 2022, I blogged regularly—often twice weekly—to unearth difficult feelings and begin to process them. I cannot stress enough how necessary this process was for me. I had spent the first 30 years of my life as most of us do: fairly unconscious, trying to figure out who I was through the lens of...
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I Never Knew How Strong I Was
I used to do this thing where I would post memes that spoke to me as a passive-aggressive way to show people I was hurting. It's a very human thing to do when we want to feel seen. Does this work,...
Let’s Meet Katie Street + A Sweetwood Review
The bartender calls me Picabo, but that’s not my name. It started two years ago when I first began frequenting the Bright Eyes Bar & Grille. I sat myself down at the bar, ordered a rusty nail...
The Better Parent + A Sweet Fall Read You Need
Snow in mid-October had made her cranky. She clung tightly to herself and cursed at her choice of coat. "It was supposed to be warmer than this," she said with disdain. "And it was definitely...
Walks with Him PLUS I wanna crash your bookclub
We walked arm in arm against the wind, our limbs held so tightly as if we were bound together. The sun of early May was bright in front of us, while the breeze was harsh and cold with remnants of...
The Little Spy
From my WIP... Manfred fell into bed with an ungraceful thud. His neighbour’s words were heavy in his head. Be better. That’s how you’ll win her back. But there were some things he simply didn’t...
The Silent Treatment + the Sweetwood audiobook is coming…
If my view outside was any indication, today was going to be grey and messy and cold. It was early November. The trees were still giving up their leaves to harsh winds and bitter rains. The sky bore...
Writing about healthy love. PLUS we have a winner!
First things first, our winner is… Zandra! Big congrats. Thank you to everyone who entered the giveaway. That was so much fun to do! I’ll do it again once we release the audiobook later this year....
I’m giving away a copy of The Sweetwood Series!
The world feels different these days. There’s a rawness, an openness, a nowhere-to-hideness to everything, and it seems overwhelming. Just last night, Robert started to tell me something that our...
Be Where You Are PLUS a NEW Holiday Romance
A lifetime ago, I drank my coffee with cream and sugar (I now take it black), and I was up to my eyeballs in grief. This piece was written then. And please do keep scrolling for a lovely NEW holiday...
Small-Town Mayor, Small-Town Romance
I wrote this post in 2020 but wanted to re-share it because my heart and mind have been holding space for writers lately. And scroll down for a NEW sweet romance release 💞 “Maybe it’s not living a...
{Story} On Leaving + a Sweet Giveaway
(Read the story and keep scrolling for a sweet offer!) On Leaving Evergreens whooshed by her as she drove. Peppered between them were trees shedding leaves of burnt red and orange. Her 2001 Acura...
What We Want in a Romance
And I use the term 'we' loosely because my eyes have really been opened as far as the differences in tastes when it comes to romance novels. I've been naive. Romance is an enormous genre and its...