Musical Awakening The Paperback Is Here & I Can't Believe I Get To Say That! 📖💖🎶

Today is the day!

The Musical Awakening paperback is officially out in the world, and I have been sitting here trying to figure out how to write this post — the one I have been imagining for longer than I care to admit — and I keep coming back to the same feeling.

I can't believe this is real! But ten years later...here we are.

I'm Going Back to San Diego Comic Con After 11 Years & This Time I'm Bringing My Debut Novel 📖🎶💖

There are certain places that stay with you.

San Diego Comic Con is one of those places for me.

I attended SDCC for the first time in 2009, back when I was deep in my era as a blogger and photographer. I made friendships that will last a lifetime. The kind of experience that embeds itself in your memory and doesn't let go.

And then life happened, the way it does, and eleven years passed since my last con.

This July, I'm going back.

But this time? I'm not just going as a fan or a photographer or a blogger. I'm going as a debut author — and I'm bringing my book with me!

The San Diego Trolley, Dan Croll, & A Scene That Became Fiction 🚃

On May 3, 2014, I tagged along with the team from A Trolley Show for an intimate acoustic performance with Dan Croll and his band on board the San Diego Trolley. Squeezed into a trolley car, sun pouring through the windows, Dan and the band played "Maway" — and it's a morning I've never forgotten.

I didn't know it at the time, but that morning — the sunlight, the trolley packed with fans, an artist playing songs just for the people in that car — became one of my favorite scenes in Musical Awakening.