Rake Writes

10 Things I Hate About You really was not an underrated film, but I would say it was ahead of its time as well, much as the previously...

There are many, many books on my children's shelves that I remember reading when I was a kid. All of them were donated to us over the...

The other day I had a thought: "I miss the 90s". It was really a great time to grow up for so many different reasons. We are the last...

As I dropped the kids off at their playdates this afternoon, I couldn't help but think of my own playdates as a child. As we arrived at...

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Several years ago, I was a freelance writer for Kootenay Living magazine, and it was a really fun outlet for my writing and creativity....

*adaptation from the famous series: "If you give a mouse a cookie" by Laura Numeroff * If you give a teacher a minute... they're going to...

How to foster a love for reading early on

Local gift ideas for the bookish person in your life

Check out these five novels my kids are really into right now!

One of my first goals in my first publishing year was to have Cornelius the Dragon in every town in the Kootenays. Publishing and...

While I’ll miss the nostalgia of summer evenings: sipping wine on the deck, patio dinners with friends, backyard banter around a small...

There was recently a death in the family, so it is something that came up in conversation tonight. It is never an easy thing, even if it...

Why is self-compassion so difficult? If a friend came to us with advice or a mistake or an accomplishment or a question or even if they...

I'm usually on Instagram discussing these things with other fellow independent authors: the hardest part about being an independent...

Okay, I did not know this until the other day, but is it not perfect?! One of my friends recently called me the "Mother of Dragons", and...

At the start of this indy-author journey, I decided I really wanted to collaborate with local/regional bookstores and children's...

About ten years ago a friend of mine was having a rough day and asked me to tell them a story. And so, out of my brain came a dragon...

One year ago I was anxiously awaiting my official first book release. I had signed off on the final draft of the book, and placed my...

This writing community has been such an encouraging place to be, and I am so grateful to have become part of it nearly one year ago....