I promised new subscribers a story about my publishing journey, and if you’ve been here for a while, some of this you lived through alongside me, but if not, strap in.
I’ve been writing my whole life, but I only let myself take it seriously once my kids were older. In 2018, I finished my first manuscript and started querying literary agents. This traditional first step for aspiring authors is usually followed by months (or years) of waiting.
Instead, something unusual happened: an editor at Audible Originals offered to publish Can’t Take It Back before I even had an agent. I signed with an agent soon after, and my debut came out in April 2020.
Yes. April 2020. I launched my first book into the opening weeks of a global pandemic. There were no launch parties or in-person celebrations…it was just me, at home, hitting refresh and hoping.
The next few years were the part of the author story nobody (fully) shares on Instagram. I kept writing. We went on submission with two more novels. Nothing sold. And in 2023, my agent and I parted ways.
I could have stopped there. Plenty of people quietly do. Instead, I decided to bet on myself: I brought Can’t Take It Back out in print and ebook, published its sequel novella (very possibly the one you just downloaded), and in October 2025, released All You Have To Do, a novel about a woman rebuilding her life after everything she counted on falls away.
If that theme from my books sounds familiar—women facing challenging times and finding out what they’re truly made of with the support of their friends—it’s not a coincidence. I write what I know.
So what else do I know? Well, I know my day job keeps me too busy to write much of anything new these days. That’s been hard to accept, honestly, but it’s forced me to look back at what I’ve already written. And my friends, I’m happy to share, there are several finished stories that don’t need much work before they’re ready to send out into the world.
And that’s the plan. Rework what I’ve already written. Keep heading down the path of betting on myself. It hasn’t steered me wrong so far.
