Written By Rebecca

As an author and creative, life often imitates art. What I create reflects my experiences and the challenges I face. Big Changes in My Personal Life: 2024 vs 2025 This blog post starts on a somber note, but I promise it gets better. So, stick with me. In 2025, I wrote less than I have in years. Many factors contributed to this decline. When art is part of who you are, you either thrive or struggle during tough times. For me, sadness can fuel my writing, but when stress and sa

Kind Friends, I have some wonderful news and stats to share with you. I hope you are having a happy holidays. Almost time for New Year’s Resolutions content too! Please tell me about your life too. Let me know in the comments what you felt about this year and some reflections ☺️ How I Sold Less But Maintained Flat Royalties YoY and What I’m Changing in 2025 Spotify Wrapped week is done but author wrapped is in. If you haven’t taken a moment to reflect on the last year, I enco

Last year I shared 13 lessons I've learned as a blogger of 13 years, but now in year 14 I realize it started way before 2010. Let's take a journey down memory lane, focusing on my life as a writer and how this has been a growing need in me all along. I’ve mentioned the origin of my original 2010 blog multiple times. The quick summary is I became obsessed with beauty gurus and made a beauty YouTube channel. After some time, I realized I had much more to say and I started my bl

Becoming an author was one of the most impactful decisions I have ever made. I've had a few questions about my author journey over the years and realized I didn't have anywhere that shared the full story and the transformation I went through along the way. It has transformed my happiness, confidence, income, and life. It is fun, challenging, and something I don't plan on stopping anytime soon. Publishing is the perfect creative path for me as it combines my love for learning

I can't believe it's been 13 years. I'd like to preface this post by saying I am not a blogging expert. Or an affiliate marketing expert....

I recently completed two big milestones in my author life, I released the second book in my Creature Cravings series and re-launched my fantasy fiction brand's Fated Tales series. Any ideas on how I should celebrate my book releases? I definitely feel like I should be doing more to appreciate the end of such big projects, but I'm not sure what. In today’s vlog, it starts off with clips of me burned out from my recent book releases and pretty drained. I eventually pepped mysel

It has been a very busy few months with back-to-back book deadlines and work obligations. I thought it would be a lot of fun to take you along for the ride with a vlog of what this time of my life is like. I released three books in April (totally obsessed with myself for doing that) - they are linked below. You'll love my books if you like paranormal romance or royalty fantasy stories with plot twists. Mentioned in this Video (Affiliate links are used both here and on my blog

Life threw a big freaking surprise my way 13 days ago. If you haven't heard, I'll fill you in, but first, let me give you some background. I've been diligently working on the sequel to my fiction book, Ember Dragon Daughter, these past few months. I had an idea for another book at the back of my head that kept getting louder, but I ignored it. Then, I had the cover of this new book pop straight into my head. I knew I couldn't ignore it anymore. Early May I contacted a design

Writing a novel takes a lot of time. Dictation is faster! Write faster while you are driving, using this app technique to dictate your book.

In this article, I'll share with you how I actually wrote a book while having a full-time job and 2-3 hour daily commute.

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It's easy to forget. Isn't that sad? But online, the focus moves quickly to numbers. To the vanity of a having over 10,000 followers so that Instagram says you have 10K instead of 9,239. It can be easy to bring together life, all of the lives you've talked to and engaged with, and think of them as a lump sum. I never want to treat people as a lump sum. But that's part of the game. Maybe we shouldn't play? What I love most about my life is that I get to share. I get to work. I

Social Media impacts our lives every day, especially when it comes to our confidence levels. In this episode of my podcast for authors, Happy Write Now, we discuss how the reveal of my social media for authors webinar/course had temporarily brought on impostor syndrome and self-doubt before I brought myself back to my mission. Below you will find the transcript and show notes for Episode 6 of the HWN podcast. I'm excited to jump on this journey with you! What are your favorit