I recently joined Eric Smith at Neighborhood Literary as my new literary agency home in March 2025, so I’ll no longer be calling my own shots at Palisade Literary. I’m writing this just to update my small group of followers and other connections so they know what’s been going on.

For all intent and purposes, I’m still retaining a majority of my former clients (who are featured here on this website) and am still repping many of the same genres I did before (which if you’re curious, you can see those here).

I imported this blog to my own personal website so that way I can still ramble on about literary things and updates about clients that I can share with my readership (however small).

Because even if no one ever reads it, this blog is for me. And it’s a resource here for new authors looking for writing tips, feedback, observations, breakdowns, reviews, and other ramblings.

Storytelling is an ever-evolving thing. Even now, the current cultural buzz of how writing is digested and dissected is already so different than, say, ten years ago. Everyone wants to write a book, and every writer thinks they’re the shit. And when there’s criticism and blowback, we fall behind the “art is subjective!” shell case that guards our insecurities and keeps that creativity in a box of our own making.

That’s why I always believe it’s necessary that writers are open-minded, even when facing criticism. Nowadays, media is dissected piece-by-piece into oblivion. To challenge the popular opinion and get ratio’d means instant death. Seemingly.

I find a lot of writing/film/TV discourse today, particularly on social media, to be very toxic to the creative process. Mostly purists who feel the need to be virtuous and morally upstanding in regards to certain social and societal issues. And if someone were – God forbid – not chronically online or up-to-speed on said societal issues, they may as well be from another planet. Perhaps I am alone on this opinion or feeling, and I certainly don’t want anyone’s views to change based solely off my experience.

But I want to build a thriving writing community, and hopefully bridge the gap between questioning authors and dutiful literary agents. My efforts in the AALA and my Sencha Chats hope to be a small and humble contribution for writers looking to finally accomplish their dream of traditionally publishing a book.

I’m excited for my next chapter with Eric. And I intend to continually publishing my unfiltered thoughts, ramblings, news, tips, and other musings here and on my Sencha Chat newsletter to hopefully fulfill those goals. So, if you’ve still subscribed to me here, and still reading this far, thanks for sticking around, and here’s to building something really, really special.