Leah's Author Blog

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!

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.

In this post, I unpack why I cringe at the question "What do you like to do?" and how I resolve to stop.

My second fear is of criticism, or critical feedback. It's a fear, just like failure, that I faced as soon as I shared my work with someone.

Why am I always afraid to share my writing? Here's the first (but also the least) reason: fear of failure.

Given all the ways to be creative, as a profession or as a hobby, what draws me to write?