My first adult romance novel, Stars in Your Eyes, is out today—and pub day has me reflecting on my own personal healing journey just a little more than usual this morning.

Hi everyone! In future Felix Ever After reprints, there will be two key changes:

First, Ezra Patel: I learned that Patel is a Gujarati name, not Bengali. I’m sorry for the harm this has caused.

Whenever I’m starting out a new project, I stop and ask myself: what’s the point of this story? For me, the point of the story is the equivalent of the story’s theme.

Social media as an author is confusing, because we are expected to show our true selves so that we don’t have boring accounts that only give updates on our books—but showing our true selves is also where anyone with a high number of followers could face consequences to safety and mental health.