Outside of writing, one of my greatest loves is video games—as you can probably tell from many posts on the blog. While I have played some recent titles upon their release, my main focus as of late has been playing games I missed out on when they came out because I didn't have the console needed. My latest catch-up has been the Uncharted series after picking up The Nathan Drake Collection (games 1-3) and Uncharted 4: A Thief's End at a thrift shop not so long ago. Uncharted i

It's time once again for the quarterly character profile featuring the cast of my historical romance novel Bound to the Heart. Set in Regency Era London, the story follows a bookseller-turned-sibling-chaperone and a hopeless romantic with a grieving heart (and an overbearing mother). The first posts in this series highlighted my protagonists, Eve and Zach. Today, it's time to talk about one of my favorite secondary characters in this WIP: Zach's brother, Henry. By the way, th

As an elementary school student in the 2000s, it seemed that every class was divided into two camps when it came to cartoons. You had the Disney Channel kids who were diehard fans of Kim Possible and The Proud Family , and the Nickelodeon kids who were devoted Spongebob Squarepants viewers and fans of anything Butch Hartman was the brain behind. There were a handful of Cartoon Network kids, too, but I don't recall there being as many among my peers. And then there's me: wha

As is the case with every year, I kicked off 2023 with the intention of improving my writing. Little did I know that there was something waiting to kick me in the butt and throw those plans out the window faster than the clean-up crew hitting Times Square after the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve. Hi, my (pen)name is Avril, and I'm a Covid-19 long-hauler. I haven't shared much about it online, but after two years of successfully avoiding it, I contracted Covid-19 in

Whether it's software or a website, a new gadget, or a different method of doing things, I am always on the lookout for ways to make my writing process smoother. Portability has become a focal point foar me. Between my full-time day job and limited hours to work on my various projects, being able to take my writing on the go makes me feel more efficient even when I'm only able to do thirty-minute sprints on my lunch breaks. Finding the best method has been more of an undertak