TLDR If you had asked me ten years ago if I would one day become an author, I probably would have laughed. Not because I didn't love books. Quite the opposite. Stories have always been a part of my life. Long before I discovered dark fantasy romance, before I knew what plotting was, and certainly before I understood anything about publishing, I was filling notebooks with stories. Most of them were unfinished. Many of them were terrible. Looking back, I had absolutely no idea