I may have said this before, my website certainly makes it obvious, but my dream job has always been, and will always be, to be a successful author.
Yes, there is the allure of recognition. Of financial freedom. Of proving, quietly and definitively, that the voices who once doubted me were wrong. But those are only the surface rewards.
The truth is simpler and far more enduring: writing should be my vocation. It has been the one constant desire of my life, the only work I have ever truly wanted to do. I am currently finishing the edits on my sixth novel, with the seed of a seventh already taking shape. In reality, there are several more waiting in the wings, each in a different stage of becoming. See the book titles on my home page.
My stories arrive the way stories often do, through dreams, through stray thoughts in the middle of ordinary moments, through a single lyric that unlocks an entire world. Music is part of my process; every book has its own soundtrack, its own emotional rhythm. See the links to the playlists on my books’ pages.
So yes, being an author is my dream job. To trade the clock and the cubicle for early mornings and blank pages. To wake at four a.m. and write, and then write some more. To build a life around a story.
What, for you, is the work that feels like destiny?
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