Step One: Write your book... or at least start. Step Two: PANIC... or don't. There is plenty of time for that later. Step Three: Get down to business... All jokes aside, there is so much information out there on how to self-publish. It's honestly overwhelming and confusing. So, instead of pretending I know everything (because I'm still a baby author), let me start with what I learned as someone who didn't do ANY research before they started writing. Because I never thought

This year has been a hard year. One of the most confronting years of my life. I started my journey to be an author. I lost a parent. I lost a grandparent. And watched my sister get married. Somewhere in all the grief and celebration, I found that I had so much inspiration. But also doubt and a whole lot of pressure for things to be perfect. (That last one might be the grief talking.) And now we are just weeks away from the end of the year and I'm still here. Still writing. Th

This cover has been months in the making! I spent hours in Canva and Procreate, obsessing over all the tiny details. Trying to make everything feel exactly right. There were so, so, so many versions of this - far more than I care to admit. I knew what I wanted the cover to do: catch eye, but also really represent what this story was about. So there I was, creating option after option... too many options. At some point I'm pretty sure that my friends hated me because I barely

Here we are ... my first blog post!