My Personal Mount Everest

Hi all! Long time no blog.

My blog game has been slipping, but I'm making it a goal this year to start posting regularly again!

Today is kind of a big day. For those of you who don't know, it's RELEASE DAY for ESI Book 3, LEGACY EXPOSED.

I woke up this morning with butterflies in my stomach! I can't believe Owen's story is officially out in the wild.

I've been calling this book my personal Mount Everest, and it honestly feels that way.

Let me give you a little background.

I started Owen's story more than 5 years ago. I had the whole thing plotted, planned, and half of it already written.

When I decided to pursue publishing ESI Book 1 (DUAL INNOCENCE), I told myself I would focus on that and take it one book at a time.

As you can imagine, I'm a completely different writer now than I was 5 years ago.

When it came time to look at Owen's story again, I realized just how difficult I'd made it for myself. There were plot holes galore! One-dimensional characters. Plot points that, honestly, didn't even make sense.

By the time I finished the first draft, I felt completely overwhelmed. I even considered throwing the whole project in the proverbial trash and starting over.

But I had a deadline to consider, so I decided to salvage what I could.

Thank goodness I did!

After a lot of 12-hour days, a river of tears over my keyboard, and countless consolation chocolates, I finally finished it.

And I'm SOOOO proud of the way it turned out.

I think you're going to fall in love with Abby and Owen, just like I did.

Now, it's time to move on to Emmett's story.

Is it possible to scale a mountain larger than Mount Everest??

Here we go!