Your work is deserving for you to care for it and water it with love, sunshine, and kindness.

Concentrate on this, and you’ll get more readers, more buzz, and more love.

Unfortunately, rejection is a huge part of the writing process — and, unsurprisingly, life.

Writing is your passion, and putting your passion into practice spawns addictive feelings like excitement, motivation, and dream-fuelled hysteria.

What advice would you give yourself five years ago?

Doing something you “love” doesn’t mean you’ll love it all the time.

Or me for that matter.

It was the best break-up ever, handled quietly and privately when we both were fresh, receptive and present with one another. My story wants new readers and different hands. I will do all that I can do to make sure the story gets them.

A writer I shall forever be.

She takes risks. She believes in second chances. She hasn’t given up on herself yet — and she isn’t going to give up on you either.