Crown: My New Album

Today I am so excited to announce my acoustic album Crown, a collection of songs that form the bedrock of who I am as a songwriter. Eleven-ish years ago, I had *very* briefly released an album called Acoustic Soup. It was only available for a blink of an eye [...]

Writing My First Novel

Over the past two+ years, I’ve written not one but two full-length novels. I still can’t believe it myself… yet, here I am. A songwriter turned aspiring author. How did this happen??? In late 2016, I had just released my album The China Doll which I had dedicated over [...]

A 10-Year-Old Comment Comes Back to Haunt Me

When I reactivated my Facebook after many, many years hiatus, I came across an old post that my friend Stephanie had written to me over 10 years ago. She told me I should write a novel. 10-year-ago me said that I could “never write a novel” – that “maybe [...]

Forbidden Shakespeare

One day when I was 9 years old, I was in the school library and ventured alone into a back room where the lights were all turned off. I’d been told this area of the library was meant for bigger kids, off-limits to us little-uns, and I desperately wanted [...]

No one can tell you how to make it

Advice given to me by a platinum selling artist about the music industry. I've been given a lot of advice over the years, this was the most profound. [...]