In Kerri Maher’s debut novel The Kennedy Debutante, Maher illustrates Kick as a passionate, rebellious, complex individual who is far more than a forgotten sister of a former President who married into British Aristocracy. Kick was a forward-thinking, underrepresented member of an iconic American family who was willing to give up (almost) everything to be with her true love.
Sunsets and Songwriting: The Rise and Fall of Daisy Jones & The Six
An oral history interview-style novel that details the rise and fall of one of the greatest (fictional) bands of the 1970s, Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid is one of the most discussed books of 2019, and rightly so.
Uninterrupted
Girl, Interrupted is a firsthand semi-diarial account of author Susanna Kaysen’s two-year stint in a Boston mental ward for wayward women in the late 1960s.
Worldly Words: How Travel Enhances Writing
Hello again! Hope your week is going well. This week I’m discussing one of my favorite things in life — travel! Upon graduating (which is three weeks away!), travel is one of the first endeavors I plan to embark on. Less than 24 hours after my graduation ceremony, I’ll be boarding a plane with my […]
How to Create Your Online Writing Portfolio
Welcome back creative friends! Hope the weekend treated you well. I’m pumped for today’s post because it revolves around the entity you’re reading this on — my online writing portfolio! I’ve decided to dedicate an entire post around why you should build your own writing portfolio and how to get started. First things first, let’s […]
Maintaining Your Online Privacy While Still Gaining Exposure
Ah, the Internet. Like most people, I have a love-hate relationship with technology, especially the Internet. I’m not the type of person who wants their personal life published on the World Wide Web for, literally, the whole world to see, but I still like to maintain some type of a digital footprint which shows the […]
The Do’s and Don’ts of Interviewing (for College Students)
Welcome back fellow writers! Thanks for tuning in again. Hope life is treating you well and you haven’t been struck by the awful plague of writer’s block. That was me for a short bit, until a few experiences prompted me to write this post. So here we are. Today, I’d like to touch on something […]
How to Get Your First Paid Writing Gig
“I really need to start freelancing. I’m so broke.” “I need to freelance because I need a little extra cash to spend on the weekends.” “I want to freelance because I just don’t like the idea of working for one place full -time.” “How did you get your freelance gigs? I keep emailing places and […]
Why Study Journalism?
May 1, 2016. I was seventeen years old & at the finish line of my high school career, trying to master the balancing act of cramming for final exams, finding the perfect prom dress and the perfect white A-line wedding dress I was required to wear for graduation. With a million and one different deadlines […]
Is Ghostwriting Ethical?
Happy Halloween creative friends! Welcome to my first *official* post on my website. Since it’s Halloween, I thought I’d touch on a spooky subject that’s come up a handful of times throughout my college career: ghostwriting. For those of you who are unfamiliar with ghostwriting, ghostwriting is the act of writing material for someone else […]