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When you write yourself back to where you are

The ground is always moving. Stay grounded in who you are. Remembering who I am is sometimes a task. I’m not so good sometimes at receiving my gifts.

I stumbled upon an article I wrote years ago describing who I wanted to be in life—my career, to be exact—but really was asked to describe my identity in the world. I’m amazed to recognize that today I’m doing just what I described. It was eleven years ago.

I felt misunderstood back then. It’s a continual process to gain confidence in my natural talents, as if I need to reign over them.

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I finally published my book

I finally published my book. Fifteen years in the making. I needed to emotionally distance myself from the content before publishing.

Click here to purchase: Buy the paperback

Book description:

My Secret Innuendo: In the Tiniest House of Time is a collection of poems and creative expression written during the most raw years of a woman’s life, finally given room to breathe after more than a decade has passed. One angle is a woman speaking to the animus, the inner masculine of Jungian psychology; in another she is speaking to her higher power. Who is listening in any given poem is left open. The title itself is a quiet metaphor: words and memories stored within a house in the mind, timeless yet suggestive and evocative. If you've ever needed permission to feel everything at once—and read or write about it—this book is for you.

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Self-publishing a paperback book

Self-publishing a book sounds simple until you're deep in trim sizes, gutter margins, and a section break that quietly corrupts your entire file. The writing is the easy part. The technical side—getting a manuscript print ready—is its own skill entirely.

I offer this service: Self-Publishing, Simplified. Trim size, margins, page numbers, front matter, copyright page, ISBN, manuscript upload (e.g., KDP Amazon)— the fifty small technical decisions standing between a finished manuscript and a published book, handled.

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