Well, I’m not even sure how to begin this post. I’m so excited, I’m still shaking and can hardly type. I woke up this morning to an email in my inbox communicating that the publisher I submitted my poetry manuscript to has decided to accept it. I’m officially part of their 2022 publishing cohort and next year my first book will be published and available for purchase. I’m going to have a book published.

My book of poetry is going to be published, ya’ll. I am so excited! I can hardly even contain myself right now. I knew this was a possibility, but I didn’t know if it would really happen. That’s the thing with publishing. It takes time and lots of energy and focus and persistence and faith that the right place will see the value of your work and want to send it out into the world. And sometimes it’s really hard to hold onto that belief. It’s hard to push through the self-doubt and the fear and the discouragement.

But when you do, things happen.

2022 is going to be a year of stepping up. It’ll be the year that my first manuscript is published and distributed out into the world. And it’ll be the year I level up and take even more steps towards building the life I want.

Celebrate with me today.