TEA Time

Book two is officially 70% written. Which feels both exciting… and slightly terrifying. I just started writing chapter 31, which means the finish line is finally starting to peek over the horizon. Not close enough to touch yet, but close enough that I can see it if I squint a little. Maybe. Lots of fun parts and lots of parts I'm doubting. It's just, you know… the usual writing process. Right now, I’m still deep in drafting mode, trying to get the rest of the story down befor

Going into book two, I wanted a better plan. So I did what I do best and let my ADHD take me down about 10,000 rabbit holes researching how other authors approach timelines, planning, and publishing. I found so, so many authors who have already tackled this particular topic. So, I pulled from their experience, combined it with what I already knew about my own process, and smushed it all together to get this list of things that work for me. I'm not going to publish my list be

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!