Hey (Getting Started)

I’ve always loved books. As a child, if I really misbehaved, my books would get taken away as punishment. I always imagined I’d become an author, but my immigrant mother instilled in me a strong need for financial independence. The possibility of making money as a writer is minuscule, so I got into tech instead.

I loved my time working in tech. I met so many delightful humans, and I am so proud of the projects I worked on. Then I got breast cancer. As I write this, I’m officially 1.5 years “No Evidence of Disease” aka cancer free, and I’m back to a new sort of normal. I find myself unemployed, and have been struggling to choose which dream to follow, but then I got inspired one night and wrote a kids book. The idea had been bouncing around my head for a while, and when I finished writing I felt like I was finally fulfilling that life long dream. I’m finally going to be a writer.

This blog is a space to document my progress as I self publish. Illustrations for the book are in the works, and I’ve got the highly optimistic goal to launch by November so it’s available during gift-buying season.

I know a lot of people are going to see this and wonder about the poor grammar. This is how I talk, so this is how I will write. I am explicitly avoiding AI usage for any of my projects. No judgement on people who use AI, I’m just craving more human to human connection and less robot intervention.

Thanks for checking in on my journey!

Louie is not so sure about all of this.