Tag: writing

• July 24, 2025

  Two Months Since Launch… Feels Like Forever!

  It’s been two whole months since Welcome to Seagull Street officially launched on May 24 and if you had told me on release day how much would happen in just eight weeks, I wouldn’t have believed you!
• July 10, 2025

  Building Something from Scratch

  Indie publishing isn’t just writing a book. It’s ordering ISBNs and barcodes, wrangling metadata, applying for sales tax IDs, calculating shipping fees, adjusting printer margins, Googling how to send a 1099 to your editor ASAP because you had no clue, and answering emails like, “Your barcode placement is not up to spec,” at 1:27 a.m.—when…
• June 5, 2025

  7 Things I’ve Learned in My First 2 Weeks as a Published Author

  Publishing a novel is deeply personal, but as someone who has worked in marketing for years, I approached the launch of Welcome to Seagull Street: That Summer in Ocean City, Maryland, like any of my new product launches. The past two weeks have been a whirlwind of fulfillment, feedback, and spreadsheets. Here’s what I’ve learned…
• May 17, 2025

  One Week Until Seagull Street!

  One week from today, my debut novel Welcome to Seagull Street will officially be released into the world, on May 24, 2025. I’ve been working on this story in bits and pieces for two years. I confess that I didn’t set out to write a literary epic. What is it? It’s a slice-of-life story grounded…
• May 2, 2025

  From First Draft to Final Proof: The Long Road to Seagull Street

  If you’re going to do something, do it right. That’s been my personal motto for as long as I can remember. Maybe that’s why it took me nearly two years to write and publish my debut novel, “Welcome to Seagull Street: That Summer in Ocean City, Maryland.”