If you know anything about me (especially from AO3), I love to put an idea out there and yeet. More than once I have found myself on both sides between an idea and 5k words of a oneshot or first chapter of a fic within hours. But when I decided I wanted to publish my debut romance novel—after about a day or two of looking at the process—I realized that I couldn’t just throw it up and make it available. There are obvious reasons: financial, logistical, artistic. Even with that in mind, it was a struggle to not talk about it, to not scream it from the rooftops.

I had unfortunately learned no lessons from my years of writing first and asking questions of how I would finish it later. That aspect of my gremlin brain taught me to write, to get myself out of a bind, how to succeed, how to fail. I’m grateful for it. But after the dust settled of making that decision to self-publish, I knew (and I hated, hated, hated it) that I needed to do this RIGHT. I needed to give this book a little more time to gain interest and an audience. I needed to make some decisions financially and think about the business (boo, hiss) of it all before I ended up in a different pickle too sour for me manage.

Anyway, here I am: adulting this book launch (please slow clap), and I’m really, really proud of what’s to come. I’m overwhelmed by this reveal, because it signifies the beginning of a dream I’ve had for longer than I was once willing to admit. It’s a celebration of endless hours of writing, editing, and telling myself that I could do this. That this would be the first, that there were MORE books and more love stories to come.

It also, appropriately, gets to be a celebration of friendship. Because yes, I wrote the book, but every step of the way, I had my village of friends at my side telling me: YES, YOU ABSOLUTELY CAN, IF ANYONE CAN, PEN—YOU CAN!!!

It was no different when I decided to self-publish. They expressed only excitement, immediately followed by: HOW CAN I HELP??

I can’t begin to express the difference it makes, to do this thing that can often exist in a vacuum. To be brought to life by the support of your partner and friends, to KNOW that you can do what you’re setting your mind to, because you have people that will reflect back to you what you need to hear when times are difficult. They see you and believe in you. Sometimes they see what I can’t.

When I decided to self-publish, my best friend Brooke (@whileIwaspainting on IG/TT) was one of the first people I told. Like others, she was eager to celebrate and quick to offer assistance. In my journey to figuring out my cover, she came up with a concept within an hour and sent it over. It made me smile, laugh, and even though I wasn’t sure it was the right fit, I couldn’t stop thinking about the concept the next day. She took the ideas I had for a color scheme from our previous chats and simplified those thoughts into something that made the premise for my novel clear and fun—and it’s really beautiful, y’all 😭

I’m so proud to present this early peek to the cover reveal before it hits my other social media. Thank you for subscribing and following along on this process with me! If you’d like to help spread the word, PLEASE retweet and share when you see the links on social media Monday, Nov. 17th. I look forward to sharing them on bsky, twt, IG, and TikTok tomorrow!

(Paperback available from Amazon at release)

I’m so excited to share character art, pre-order incentives, and ARC giveaways in the coming months, so make sure you to keep following this space (I’ll still be posting any writerly thoughts on my mind here). But make sure to follow me on Instagram and TikTok as well for sneak peeks of A FINE LINE.

More to come!