Renn - Faire Blog ⋆༺𓆩⚔𓆪༻⋆

November 6th, 2025

I spent this past weekend at the Delaware Renaissance Faire in Townsend, Delaware. It was a truly magical experience. In my corset, skirt, and boots, I talked about my books and met others who, like me, love immersing themselves in fantasy. I saw royals and dragons, jesters and maidens. Homemade costumes and beautiful hairstyles—there was even a woman who braids hair in all those fancy ways that boggle my mind, but that I absolutely adore. There were people who spoke Old English and those like me who didn’t dare for fear of butchering it. Jugglers and archery, singing, live shows, and even a public shaming. What a blast!

The weather was wickedly windy on Saturday but gorgeous on Sunday. A man walked around selling roses—my husband bought one for me—and we ate brisket in a mug with mashed potatoes, baked beans, and coleslaw. Readers and book lovers entered my tent and stayed to talk. We chatted about reading, and I told them all about my stories. Refreshing and rejuvenating my passion for the books I write and the characters I create. With every person I spoke with, I fell back in love with characters I hadn’t revisited since I wrote the books. And with each, I realized that talking about my books and meeting fellow book lovers is the highlight of what I do. You see, as a full-time author, the struggle to market, to constantly post content, to always have an active online presence, is draining. I love interacting with my readers and other writers online, but having to always sell takes the fun out of what I do. I’ve never been comfortable selling, and that discomfort has only grown.

Writing is my passion. Bringing the stories that thump around in my head and the characters who constantly nudge at me to life is the reason I started writing. I love weaving stories and sharing them. But when I made the move to leave my job and write for a living, I didn’t realize I was trading one grind for another. I thought only of all the stories I could tell, all the time I’d have to finally put those stories into words. I didn’t realize I would spend more time staring at social media and fishing for likes and sales than I would writing.

It’s been a year and a half since I quit my job, and in that time, I’ve come to realize that I need to get back to what I love. To the why. To the driving force in swapping one career for another. Storytelling. And so, I’m changing things a bit. Shaking them up. Going forward, I’ll attend more in-person events—where I can meet my readers and future readers and share my joy in the stories I tell—make less content but content that engages my readers, send more newsletters, and write more blogs. All with the hope that I’ll reconnect with my ‘why’—my readers and sharing my head full of magical stories with them.

I’ll be back at the Renn Faire next weekend, and I’m looking forward to connecting one- on-one with more book lovers. Steampunk is the upcoming theme, so my corset will have accompaniments. I’ll be indulging in another barbecue in a mug, and maybe I’ll make a stop by the braiding tent and get my hair done, too.