Site Updates

Welcome to my newly updated website! It's been a long time in coming, and yes, the site has been inactive for some time. Apologies about that. Life has hit hard over the last couple of years and I've not had the bandwidth to deal with maintaining much of a web presence. I hope that will change going forward, and I can get back on track with my writing.

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Creative Resources

I’ve been super busy lately, so this week’s post will be a short but hopefully good one! 

As I’ve mentioned before, I generally hang out in Facebook writing groups. Aspiring authors like to show off their cover artworks in progress, and I’ve been no exception to this, although I have some advantages when it comes to sourcing stock images just because I use them frequently in my personal and professional work as a graphic designer. Yes, I’m cheap, so I tend to prefer the free resources.

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Content and Trigger Warnings

The other day someone posted a message in one of the Facebook groups that I frequent. It read something to the effect of “Make sure you include trigger warnings in your books, because when I read XYZ I was shocked at the content!” The tone, to me at least, came across across like scolding, as if authors who don’t include trigger warnings are doing something wrong. The problem with that is that triggers are as individual as the people involved. It’s impossible to account for everyone’s fears and phobias. What freaks me out almost certainly isn’t going to be the same thing that freaks you out.

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