Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a wife, mother, and writer.
I live North of Pittsburgh in a township populated by an extraordinary number of pizza shops. I married my high school sweetheart (it still counts even though we went to different high schools) in 2002. We have one daughter and two shih tzus called Luke & Leia. We’re not as into Star Wars as our pet name choices suggest!
I started my blog, Big Teeth & Clouds (http://bigteethclouds.blogspot.com) in 2009, but I stopped blogging almost entirely from the spring of 2011 until winter of 2014. I was almost famous once for writing about Eggo waffles. In the summer of 2017, I published my first novel, No Room for Hondo. The story is deeply personal, a fictionalized account of my struggles with postpartum psychosis after the birth of my daughter.
My daughter has moderate-severe sensorineural hearing loss. I wrote a book that chronicles our experiences with hearing aids called Magic Ear Kids.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book, Magic Ear Kids, is named for the fun moniker my daughter’s first audiologist gave her brand new hearing aids. “These are your new ‘magic ears,’” she said. We called the hearing aids magic ears for years and all the kids we knew that wore hearing aids were “Magic Ear Kids.” The book is a compilation of stories about parenting a child with hearing loss.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I’m not sure it’s unusual, but I write a significant amount of blog posts and story ideas in the notes app on my iPad. Writing this way takes me way longer than it would to go to my laptop, but I find myself doing it all the time.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
I thought I was a big fan of Charles Dickens until I introduced my daughter to his work. She is a Dickens fanatic and I now doubt my ability to appreciate anything that much.
I do enjoy rich language that begs to be read aloud. I’m most inspired by realistic stories.
What are you working on now?
I’m working on an as yet untitled novel about a middle school language arts teacher. She is miserable and begins working toward a more fulfilling life after an incident of very poor judgement regarding a student with special needs.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’m hoping it will be awesome gang.com!
Do you have any advice for new authors?
If you are confident in your work, let it show.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
It’s not having what you want, it’s wanting what you have.
That’s life advice right there.
What are you reading now?
What Unites Us by Dan Rather
Effigy by M.J. Fifield
What’s next for you as a writer?
I hope to finish my work in progress and continue to promote my two published books. I’m going to an author festival in September.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Bible
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
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