Writer Claudia Osmond asked me to share the story of my publishing journey on her website, Real Talk. On Real Talk, writers open up about their experiences with the inner critic, the creative process, switching gears between creative work and the rest of life, and so on. Real Talk is a blog for creatives by creatives, intended to “make our vast artists’ world feel a bit smaller, tighter, and more connected.”

You can read about my journey to publishing here. I reveal my early aspirations to become a literary agent and how I ended up publishing my first book, Maya.