by Anastasia Alexander | Jun 27, 2020 | Love in the 21st Century, Uncategorized, writing
Inspiration can arrive from the most unusual places. For example, the inspiration for my novel, Tangles of the Heart, started early evening on the Fourth of July. Buzzing with excitement, my two pre-teen girls piled into the car, and my husband and I followed them....
by Anastasia Alexander | Jun 19, 2020 | Women Empowerment, writing
Tangles of the Heart is released today. #NewRelease #KU → Tangles of the Heart by Anastasia Alexander is LIVE!Amazon US: https://amzn.to/2Ch7ICOAmazon CA: https://amzn.to/3deB01AAmazon UK: https://amzn.to/3fwSeZvAmazon AU: https://amzn.to/2Bh9HXjCan love survive the...
by Anastasia Alexander | Jun 18, 2020 | Love in the 21st Century, Uncategorized
One of the favorite things my children liked to do when they were young was play the game, “Would you rather?” They loved to fill up the dinner or travel time in the car with “Would you rather A or B?” For example, “Would you rather eat a...
by Anastasia Alexander | Jun 18, 2020 | writing
We all long for something we don’t have. Currently, I am longing for a normal life. One where all the drama unfolds in my fiction and doesn’t spill forth into my real life. I was once at a national SCBWI conference in LA (society of children’s writing and...
by Anastasia Alexander | May 22, 2020 | Love in the 21st Century, Uncategorized
It’s time to start a revolution! I want the world to explode in virtual love. The world is on fire and way too many people are dying and sick. My heart bleeds for all those who are suffering. I want it to end just like everyone else, but I have a feeling this...
by Anastasia Alexander | Mar 25, 2020 | Love in the 21st Century, Uncategorized
From the moment the coronavirus started seeping across the globe, our modern life as we knew it had begun change. So many things have shifted from travel bands, stock market free falling, to social distancing measures being put in place. No one knows exactly how bad...
by Anastasia Alexander | Dec 20, 2017 | empowerment, Love in the 21st Century
I grew up with the Norman Rockwell vision of the holidays. It didn’t help that my mom was one of those people that went full tilt into creating that reality. She would put up at least five full Christmas trees. It wasn’t the kind of tree that had a few...
by Anastasia Alexander | Apr 11, 2017 | News, Writing
I just wrote a short story and I love it! I am super excited about it. There are rare times in an author’s life where they sit down to write a story and the story completely takes over them. Consumes them and demands to be written now. This happened to me with...
by Anastasia Alexander | Mar 13, 2017 | abuse, embarassement, empowerment, Relationships
I have a secret. It’s one that I have kept hidden for a very long time, and I have never planned on spilling it to anyone. But here’s the thing, I have committed to writing regular blog posts, and well, I need to write about something so it might as well be about my...
by Anastasia Alexander | Mar 1, 2017 | embarassement, empowerment, Relationships, shame
Well, Grandpa up and died. He was 93, so I guess it was time. I grew up with him telling me that I would probably never see him again because he was going to die. My father told me that Grampa told him that he was going to die the first time he met my mom....
