I Started Writing Musical Awakening in 2015: This Is Then 📖 🎶 💖

I started writing Musical Awakening in 2015. And I tried to, but I couldn't finish it.

For a long time, I wasn't even sure I was supposed to. And I didn't want to force it.

That feels strange to say now because Musical Awakening is finally a real book. There are paperbacks sitting on my desk. People have read it. People have reviewed it. It's on Amazon!

But in 2015? It was just a document on my computer. And I was a very different person.

I Went Back to San Diego Comic-Con 10 Years Later ✨

There are places that feel like vacations. And then there are places that feel like time machines. For me, San Diego Comic-Con is definitely the second one.

Your Literary Travel Guide: Musical Awakening ✈️🌵🌴🇬🇧

Some books are set in one place. Musical Awakening is set in a feeling — and that feeling lives in a lot of places.

When I started writing June Snow's story, I wasn't consciously building a travel itinerary. I was writing from memory, from real places I had been, real corners I had sat in, real cities that had changed me. But looking back at the finished novel, I realize I had quietly mapped out an entire world — one that stretches from the high desert of New Mexico to the cobblestone streets of Oxford, from the California coast to the banks of the River Thames, and finally to Florence at golden hour.

If you've read Musical Awakening, this post is for you. And if you haven't — consider this your invitation to a world worth visiting. 🎶