Leah's Author Blog

The administrator in my mind has taken over, declaring this spring is the perfect moment to do All The Things. Oh, and there's a great sale going on too. ;)

Spring is here, I'm slowly but steadily writing and doing my indie author thing.

An update on how writing book 2 in the new trilogy is going, plus the last (for now) round of teasers for book 1!

I'm on to book 2 of the new series, beta reading is underway for book 1, and I have the third round of teasers for you.

I finished the first draft of my next book! And here's the second round of teaser images.

Photo Credit: Me! (That's Lily) What I've been up to ☃️Brrr, the Eastern USA got a "big" (for us) snowstorm last Sunday, and the snow has stubbornly stuck around because it's stayed well below freezing, sometimes with a low in the negatives (Fahrenheit). I took a walk in the woods with Lily (Mom's dog) the other day, and I could walk on the snow without leaving footprints—the snow was that solidly frozen. And treacherous, which means no twice-daily walks with Lily. She's star

My first check-in while writing my next series, full of musing on my writing process before and my process now. If behind-the-scenes stuff ruins the magic for you, skip, because I'm spillin' a lot of tea.

Warm wishes for the new year, and an announcement about book six's audio completion.

What I've been up to: snow, audiobook update, and the completed Moontouched Hold map.

A quick update on my recording of the sixth audiobook, and a preview of a map in progress!

No matter how hard I have tried to be otherwise, to be the author who can do it all, all at once … I'm not. I need obsessions.

A quick update on a big milestone for me and a new Spotify playlist.

Personal update on recording book five and doing a business deep dive, including using Gemini to teach me how to do things with Excel I never thought I'd be able to do. The world is now my oyster.

In my capstone post on my favorite life improvements in speculative fiction, today I'm talking about community.

Picking up from my last post on my favorite improvements to daily life in fiction, this time I'm talking about housing and sanitation.

I'm taking a break from my Favorite Things series of posts to share something else I love (and that is relevant to this week): goal-setting.

In this post on my favorite things in fiction, I'm going to talk about improvements to daily life, particularly in sleep and food.

In this latest installment in the series of posts about my favorite things in fiction, I'm going to talk about paragons.

In my next post on my favorite things to read and write in fiction, here are the kinds of villains I see as being a (cough) necessary evil.

One of my favorite things in fiction is a soft heroine, and here's what I mean by that.