My Story
Having gone through some pretty rough patches, many people told me I needed to write a book about my life. I figured that would bore the shit outta people, so I just gave the main character in ABWTD my story. A way for people to connect to her and to me and not write a memoire. Maybe one day the memoire will come. Not today.
“Everyone has a story that is slumbering within them. It is the writers of the world that hear when they awaken.” -Inara Gage
My story is one of tragedy and triumph. Where I learned to truly embrace the darkest parts of life and grow from it. My son almost died at birth because of a muscle disorder. Three months after marrying his father, I was diagnosed with cancer, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, found from a very wanted pregnancy. I couldn’t save the baby, she is now my guardian angel. A year after finishing chemo, my ex husband left me for another woman. Nearly killing myself from alcohol, my mom and best friend was diagnosed with cancer a month after I got sober. After a long battle with squamous carcinoma I lost her. During all these troubles I had written and published my first series “The Sorenya Chronicles”. My publisher went under, the self publishing company I went for after my publishing dreams imploded ended up be scam artists under the Author Solutions umbrella. After struggling so hard after my divorce I decided to go back to school to learn how to market myself. I am now cancer free, six years sober, graduated with my MBA in May of ‘23, have two new books releasing next year, and building my empire. Starting from scratch under a new pen name, I am still chasing that best selling author dream. But just like cancer, I will not lay down and die, I will continue to fight for that dream until my last breath.