POV: You hold the book you almost never had the courage to write.

Oh my gosh, they're here and it's pouring rain and I need to get them off the porch. Let's unbox the long-awaited author copies of my book. This will be the first time live reaction of seeing the cover, the inside together. The packages have been secured. I cannot wait to unbox these with you. All right, besties, let's take them to the kitchen. Why the heck am I so nervous about seeing these? And I think I'm even more nervous because I'm opening them for the first time with you. I've not, I've only seen proofs of the cover. I think I'm going to cry. I'm so nervous. I just had to keep telling myself God's plan is bigger than mine. I want to be gentle, I want to make sure I don't like mess anything up. It's even prettier in person. Like, that's me. What a journey. I have been in the messy middle of publishing a book now for the past year. I just walked Silent to Spoken the way I walked the Camino because I'm still working on finding my voice. But when I woke up one day and I just felt like I didn't know, it was like what now? I went back to school, I started working on my relationships, and I pulled this back off the shelf. I started writing this when I lived in Austin. And how far the book title and the cover has come over the years. Like, maybe I should do a video of how where it started and how it got here because it really started. I remember the first book cover, I was laying in the bed, feet up, and it like had all these identities that I no longer related to, just swarming around me. It went from that hot mess to this beautiful, beautiful cover. Like, look, it's so pretty. My favorite quote from this book is, "Silence was not your personality. It was your protection." I just love that. Like, and I want to say again, thank you for all the advanced readers. And if you are an arc reader and you have struggled with identity, trying to figure out what happens next, people pleasing, please DM me. I would love to send this book out to any man or woman. I've had men buying it. I wrote it from a woman's perspective for women, but again, if you're an arc reader and you want to read it, I would love to send it to you. Thank you for taking this moment to celebrate with me in this book. And I want to thank everybody who's already done their pre-orders, but it's open, it's launch day, it's out, wherever you buy your books, Barnes and Noble, Books-A-Million, Amazon, go get it now, grab your copy. It also comes in hard cover, but the hard cover, mine is still in shipping, so I only have the paperback, but it gives you two options. And yeah, just thank you. I love y'all, just stay sweet out there.