When I started writing a year ago, I never dreamed that signing an exclusive contract with a horror publishing house would be in the cards for me. Here we are!!!! Yesterday, I signed a contract with 13 Days Publishing, and today it was officially announced! When I was 12, I knew I wanted to write, and now I can officially say that 12-year-old me would think 34-year-old me is the coolest! As a result of this development, I plan to rebrand as a horror author. I will continue writing my romance, but that'll be more of a side project when I need a nice little palate cleanser! I'm out here proving that dreams come true if you put in the time and effort. If you have a dream, CHASE IT! Life is too short not to! You don't want to wake up one day and regret the chances you didn't take! 🖤 #horror #horrorauthor #indieauthor #followyourdreams #13dayspublishing

Today's my birthday, and my first book has officially been published and is available worldwide on Amazon! It's available in paperback, hardcover, on Kindle, and for free with KU! It feels so surreal, but it's exciting! I never thought I'd finish that book. I thought I'd grow bored and just give it up. There were times when I actually almost deleted the document and called it quits. My best friend was able to keep me going, and I'm glad he did because now it's out there for the world to love and enjoy! I couldn't be prouder of myself than I am in this moment!

We have a bit of an update! It's been a wild time since I started writing my first book on March 14th of this year! We now have Puppe up for preorders on Amazon and we are formally releasing the book on September 19th which happens to be my birthday and the birthday of my Female Main Character (or FMC for short)! We are almost done with the first draft of book two in The Men of Waidmann Series, Bring Him Home, and I plan on setting up preorders for it in November, and plan to release if on Christmas Day this year. I manifested in the beginning of this year that 2025 would be my year, and it certainly is. My first year as a full-time author and I'm doing a double release! I can only hope that 2026 bears the same results! I couldn't be more proud of myself than I am right now. I'm literally making my childhood dream a reality, one word at a time!

So, as you may know by now, I started writing my debut novel on March 14th of this year. We are now entering the third month of this project, and we are just about ready for professional edits and publication. I've hit a few snags along the way, such as a rude beta reader who tried hijacking my novel and trying to get me to make it fit her wants and needs instead of letting me write for myself, and almost quitting multiple times. I let this person affect me for a while, and I even started writing a version that just wasn't me or my vision, and it made me miserable. I finally said fuck it, I'm not doing this for her, I"m doing this for me and reverted to my original. Edits are now going smoothly. I was going to push everything back to October 19th for publication because I thought I was going to have to revamp the whole book, but since I no longer have to, I will be publishing on my birthday, September 19th! I couldn't be more excited. To help with the overwhelming sadness I'm sure to feel after publishing such an important piece of work, I'll be working on book two in my series. I told myself that 2025 was going to be my year, and it honestly has been so far. It can only go up from here! I can't wait to see what 2026 holds for my writing career (I say this only because I won't publish again until 2026)! I'll be exiting this year as a published author, which is a serious dream come true! I've been dreaming of this day since I was a little girl, and now I've made my dream happen!

I can't believe that it's been four years since I retired. The time seems to have flown by. I figured you all would like a little life update from me to see where I am now in life. I started writing my debut novel on March 14th of this year, and just finished the rough draft on April 25th. I will be spending two months in the editing cave, then for the first 14 days of July will be beta reading. Afterwards, I have yet another month of editing, and then I ship it off to my professional editor, who will take care of the final edits. I plan to be writing the final draft from mid to late August into early September, and I plan on publishing the novel on September 19th, my birthday! I couldn't be prouder of myself, and I couldn't be more excited than I am right now!