Holy cow! How did I get to this point? I have actually sent my book to people who want to read it before it's published! And I only know some of them in real life. It feels like it is happening so fast and also like I've been working at this for longer than I've been alive. It's a weird place to be, emotionally speaking. I've had some things come up in my personal life, and it was easy to say, "I'll just push it back." Then, I sat in the office my family rearranged the house

I really thought writing the book was the hard part. No. Wait, then I thought editing was hard. Oh, man, and then there was the endless querying of agents attempting to get two different books published. Even more endless rejections and silence. Turns out, this is the hard part. Learning the business end of publishing and all of its separate, important pieces has been one of the great challenges of my adult life. There are so many things to do. All the lists and time allocate

Well, today I sent out the first few acceptances for advanced readers. Even though I'm looking for a few more to give me a review before the pre-orders go live, it still feels like a major step in this journey! Writing seems to be the easy part, learning the business side of publishing has been a job of its own. I'm incredibly blessed to have a support system like mine, with my loving husband and my best friend as my biggest cheerleaders. It's crazy that I've even managed to

This week, we took the next step in our publishing journey by registering Lightfoot Publishing, LLC in Georgia. I've been talking about doing this forever, wanting to make this part of my story a reality. Sitting with my husband, who is the most supportive spouse on the planet, we registered the LLC so we can publish under it with some protection. Just looking at it makes it all feel so, so real. I can't believe we have come this far. In October, we will have the cover rev

More exciting news... Happy Monday! Exciting news, friends. A Dark Attachment will be getting a long-awaited sequel titled "This Dark Possession" to be released on October 2nd to calightfoot.com! Also in October, we will get a cover reveal for Dark Ember a couple of weeks before pre-orders start! The next few months will be hectic, getting everything off of my screen and into the ether, but I'm so excited to share everything with you! Stay tuned for more and if you want to