I am a rabid plotter, so I have my roadmap to check every day when I get ready to write. My process is to take those couple of scenes and my phone and go dictate a sketch of what that looks like, talking my way through all the action and blocking and dialogue, because I think better when I'm moving. Then I export the transcript, which has to be translated because NO dictation software speaks Southern, and then convert that into the actual prose.

I actually don't sit still too well, so I tend to work in 45-60 minute chunks before getting up and going to refill water or make a fresh warm beverage. And I've just recently set up a treadmill desk, which has gone well so far. There has been no face planting and many, many more steps!

We in the South appreciate oral storytelling tradition. Audiobooks are the epitome of that. I love being read to by someone who's actually gifted at it. Add to that, 95% of my own reading is in audio, so I'm aware it's a voracious market.

Hiking! There's not a lot of great options where I live in Mississippi, but we're right next door to Alabama, which has some phenomenal trails. I love getting out with my girlfriends and shedding technology for the day.

I have a dumpster fire sitting on my desk. Dumpy. He was my pandemic mascot.

I went to Australia for the first time this year for RARE Melbourne. While I was in Tasmania, I got to cuddle a baby wombat named Madge!