writing life – Tracy Cooper-Posey

EVEN MORE TIME KISSED MOMENTS Is Here!

Leave a Comment / My Books, New Release, Paranormal Romance, Time Travel, Vampires / May 7, 2026 / author memoir, behind the scenes, book anniversary, Canadian author, collector editions, Edmonton author, indie publishing, Kiss Across Memories, Kiss Across Time, paranormal fiction, Paranormal Romance, romance series, speculative romance, Stories Rule Press, time travel fiction, time travel romance, Tracy Cooper-Posey, vampire romance, writer reflections, writing life / 3 minutes of reading

What happens when a ten-year anniversary edition becomes something more? While revisiting the Kiss Across Time series for a special collector release, Tracy Cooper-Posey found herself reflecting not just on the books, but on time itself, storytelling, survival, and the strange roads that lead writers to create the stories readers love. Kiss Across Memories is part memoir, part publishing notebook, and part behind-the-scenes look at one of Tracy’s longest-running series.

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The Things We Don’t See

Leave a Comment / Interesting Settings, Just Slightly Off Topic, Ruminating / May 3, 2026 / awareness, curiosity, Hajj, human behavior, inspiration, Mina, observation, perception, scale, storytelling, unseen world, world perspective, writing life / 3 minutes of reading

I had to stare at the photo for a while. At first, it didn’t make sense—farmland, maybe, or some kind of industrial grid. Then the scale began to sink in. The repetition. The roads. And then came the realization that stopped me: they’re tents. Hundreds of thousands of them, housing millions of people in a place I barely think about—proof that even now, in a supposedly connected world, vast and important things can exist just outside our awareness.

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The Truth About Writers’ Lives (It’s Not What You Think)

2 Comments / My Life / September 14, 2025 / behind the scenes writing, behind the scenes writing process, daily writing routine, daily writing schedule, how long does it take to write a book, Indie Author, indie author life, myths about writers, publishing industry, real writer’s life, reality of a writer’s life, time management for writers, truth about authors, truth about writers, what do writers do all day, writer burnout, writing life / 14 minutes of reading

Most people think writers live glamorous lives — champagne book launches, exotic research trips, and endless hours of leisure to dream up stories. The truth is a lot less Parisian café and a lot more 4:30 a.m. alarm clocks, fourteen-hour workdays, and muttering at characters who won’t behave while the laundry piles up.

In this post, I pull back the curtain on what writers’ lives really look like, why the myths persist, and how those rosy assumptions can sometimes hurt more than help.

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