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Today’s a very special day.

Because today is my mom’s birthday.

My mom is a woman of many talents. She’s happiest with a project in front of her. If something’s broken, she’ll figure out how to fix it. If someone needs help, she’s already halfway there before they’ve finished asking.

We’re very different.

She creates with her hands. I create with

Note: This originally ran during the early days of Kiss & Tell with MK. I was actually in the middle of doing rewrite number 7 million on Emergency Contacts. I’ve come a looooong way since then, as you can see in my writing style. I was about to graduate with my MA, so everything feels very educational (blame it on my TBR list being replaced with

Voice has always been something of a cape that writers wear. Or maybe a shield. Or superpower.

Whatever.

The fact is that my voice is mine, and it didn’t come from anyone else. That’s beautiful. It’s also scary as hell.

But where does my writer’s voice actually come from?

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Journalism

Yeah, yeah, I know.

You know that phrase, It takes a village? I’m a firm believer in it.

That’s because, in the medical life, you’re thrust into a world where life and death sometimes rests on the shoulders of a twenty-something-year-old who’s still figuring out who they are while learning how to save someone else’s life.

But here’s the thing.

They don’t get there alone.

To research or to ask my husband? That is the question I ask myself every time I need to write medicine from a physician’s perspective. More often than not, thanks to his schedule, it’s Google to the rescue.

Most of my novels come from personal experience—things I’ve observed, witnessed, or simply lived through. But every writer has a trusted

Have you ever closed a book and wondered what the epilogue would look like for the main couple? Sometimes, that might be because there’s chemistry but not compatibility between the main characters.

Chemistry is one of the easiest things to recognize in a story.

Think about it as the opposite of that class you