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Travel is expensive and time-consuming and hard and beautiful all at once. I feel like a lot of online influencers (and that’s not what I am) want to shame you about not being able to travel. It’s not always possible for everyone. We all have different lives with different responsibilities tying us to our home. My writing has not made me rich. It doesn’t pay my bills. What it does provide me with though is opportunities to meet new people online and around the country. Next year my writing will take me overseas. Writing is a solitary thing but you have to get out, beyond your own door and your own small community to see the world. Traveling teaches me empathy and keeps my mind open to the beauty and tragedies beyond my every day life. Thank you for giving me this gift. I want to share everything I see in this world with you. (And I can’t wait to return to Gatlinburg in April for a #writersretreat)

Have you read Severin’s story in I Like You, I Love Her?⠀ ⠀ She receives sage advice from her father throughout the novel. It was a leap for me...writing a character so closely based upon myself...with a loving father. Maybe I wrote what I imagined it would have been like. ⠀ ⠀ Who do you run to for advice?

#makeblackoutpoetry I was imprisoned⠀ by⠀ a boy ⠀ ⠀ I ⠀ was lonely and⠀ remained⠀ hopeless

Part of a longer piece in Tell Me Where It Hurts. Have you ever grieved for someone who didn’t deserve it? #jrrogue

Have you picked your @bookofthemonth book yet? ⠀ I am so excited for this one. I devoured A Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen.⠀ ⠀ SYNOPSIS⠀ ⠀ The next novel of psychological suspense and obsession from the authors of the blockbuster bestseller The Wife Between Us⠀ ⠀ Seeking women ages 18–32 to participate in a study on ethics and morality. Generous compensation. Anonymity guaranteed.⠀ ⠀ When Jessica Farris signs up for a psychology study conducted by the mysterious Dr. Shields, she thinks all she’ll have to do is answer a few questions, collect her money, and leave.⠀ ⠀ Question #1: Could you tell a lie without feeling guilt?⠀ ⠀ But as the questions grow more and more intense and invasive and the sessions become outings where Jess is told what to wear and how to act, she begins to feel as though Dr. Shields may know what she’s thinking…and what she’s hiding.⠀ ⠀ Question #2: Have you ever deeply hurt someone you care about?⠀ ⠀ As Jess’s paranoia grows, it becomes clear that she can no longer trust what in her life is real, and what is one of Dr. Shields’ manipulative experiments. Caught in a web of deceit and jealousy, Jess quickly learns that some obsessions can be deadly.⠀ ⠀ Question #3: Should a punishment always fit the crime?⠀ ⠀ From the authors of the blockbuster bestseller The Wife Between Us comes an electrifying new novel about doubt, passion, and just how much you can trust someone.⠀ ⠀ To get your copy of An Anonymous Girl head over to @bookofthemonth

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. -Mark Twain

It doesn’t take much to find me here. ⠀⠀⠀ A stray thought. ⠀⠀⠀ Like a loose hair fallen on my face, ⠀⠀⠀ into my eyelashes. ⠀⠀⠀ Like a loose hair spiraling down the drain. ⠀⠀⠀ I fixate. I numb. ⠀⠀⠀ My limbs become achey and my heart ⠀⠀⠀ becomes seized. ⠀⠀⠀ They want me to say it’s a sadness. ⠀⠀⠀ A deep blue crawling up my throat. ⠀⠀⠀ But it’s not. ⠀⠀⠀ It’s a heist and I’m in on it. ⠀⠀⠀ It’s this close friend, ⠀⠀⠀ this apathy and vengeful void. ⠀⠀⠀ It’s so easy to take the hand reaching for me. ⠀⠀⠀ Pale white and silent like a sleeping lover. ⠀⠀⠀ The depression from my heavy head on the pillow. ⠀⠀⠀ The depression that never leaves me alone. ⠀⠀⠀ They want me to call it a sadness, ⠀⠀⠀ but it’s not. ⠀⠀⠀ It’s so much worse than that. ⠀⠀⠀ #jrrogue⠀⠀⠀

Don’t be an asshole when someone unfollows you on social media. ⠀ Don’t take it personally unless you’ve had a discussion, and you know for a fact that it’s indeed personal. (hey if your mom or dad unfollowed you maybe it was just fat thumbs and an accident?)⠀ ⠀ There are many reasons someone may unfollow you on social media. Maybe you post pictures of your new addition to the family, and the person unfollowing has had trouble with fertility. ⠀ Maybe you are posting your enviable fitness results and the person unfollowing has had trouble with their health. ⠀ Maybe you are extremely open and honest with your mental health struggles and the person unfollowing feels the tug to relapse into past bad habits when confronted with someone else’s battle. ⠀ ⠀ I could go on and on. ⠀ ⠀ We preach that no one should follow accounts on social media that do not make them feel good. (Because lets be honest we are driving 90 miles an hour into a new world where social media hinders mental health in so many ways.) But we should also express to those who get angered when we are unfollowed that it isn’t always personal. ⠀ ⠀ Focus on yourself and your growth. What’s good for you isn’t always what’s good for someone else.

In December I am partnering with some of my favorite blogs to give away copies of my books! (Check the link in my bio to sign up if you want to reshare a review of one of my books and giveaway some copies to your followers. if you have any issue using the form just DM me.)⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ On 12/1 you’ll want to watch @ashesbooksandbobs for a giveaway of Kiss Me Like You Mean It. Check out the link in her bio for her Blog, Goodreads, Twitter, and Facebook page. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ 📷 by @ashesbooksandbobs

In December I am partnering with some of my favorite blogs to give away copies of my books!⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ On 12/1 you’ll want to watch @underthecover_blog for a giveaway of I Like You, I Love Her. Check out the link in her bio for her website, Goodreads, and Facebook page. ⠀ ⠀⠀ 📷 by @underthecover_blog

“How many men have I loved? Some briefly, some all-consuming. Some for a night, some for a second on a busy street.” #kissmelikeyoumeanit

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