The best news at the beach

The beach is one of my favorite places in the world. I love the open waters, and how they extend into places beyond what I've seen. I love the way my feet sink into the sand. I love sitting on blankets with my family, eating cold burgers while the hot sun dries my damp hair.

So, I guess it's fitting that it's the place where I received the best news of my life.

But let's back up. My debut novel, Maya's Laws of Love, came out this year, but I've been in the publishing sphere for a long time. I wrote my first book from 2017-2018, but I didn't revise or work on it at all because I didn't know how to at the time. I didn't know much about what it meant to actually work on a book. Also, it just wasn't very good, and I can admit that!

Did I let it get me down? Absolutely not!