My Story: Self-Publishing a Poetry Collection at 23

And what’s next…

I have always been a writer. It is a fact of my existence and a truth that seeps from the marrow of my bones.

Before a computer, there was scrap paper, stapled cards, comic books sold at school, and notepads with stories carefully re-written with each edit. The old box of a family computer saw my earliest attempts at novel writing (a chapter a page!! wor…