Eee!! This post is five years in the making! Back in 2020 (maybe even 2019?), I started working on a story that would become a “book of my heart.” It was the most challenging, most ambitious project I’d ever attempted. I wasn’t sure, at the beginning, I could even pull it off. But my fellow author and friend, Kyra Whitton, listened to my early brainstorming and told me to DO IT. So I began, knowing just three things:

~ It would be about a bestselling author who ends up in the world of her novel a...