Then the next day
How will you know your enemy?
By their color or your fear
One by one
You can cage them in your freedom
Make them all disappear
-Stars
#poetry #music #writingcommunity #webelongtoeachother #thepatternshop
THE PATTERN SHOP is a novel about understanding the difference between "fixing" and healing, home and belonging. 🦋
#wipsnips #ThePatternShop #writersky #literaryfiction #comingofage
When art mirrors life and vice versa.
Stickers and books 👇🦋
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Original canvas artwork spotted at the thrift store not included. 😂
#writersky #art #merch #butterflies #migration #webelongtoeachother #thepatternshop
Less than 3% of people who start writing a book will finish it. Even fewer will go on to publish it.
It will take you 10+ years of writing, editing, querying, and almost giving up.
But you’ll beat the odds. 🦋
#writersky #indieauthors #booksky #thepatternshop #literaryfiction
Three weeks out from book launch day, I'm feeling guilty for being less "present" with my son.
But a few weeks where he gets more attention from his dad vs. years of me resenting him for not following my dreams?
Worth it.
#ThePatternShop #indieauthor #momlife
Happy Día de los Muertos! 💀
Here's an excerpt from THE PATTERN SHOP--a reminder that we can choose to see through the veil at any time. 🦋
P.S. Leave a comment if you'd like to receive a reminder when THE PATTERN SHOP is out (Dec 2025)!
#diadelosmuertos #ThePatternShop #literaryfiction #booksky
When your heart wants something you're not ready for...yet. 🦋
#WIPsnips #ThePatternShop #indieauthor #debut
Writing a memoir turned fiction is like taking blocks of fabric (real events that happened) and re-arranging them into patterns, stitching them together and hoping it holds.
AND that it's beautiful. 🦋
#ThePatternShop #writersky #indieauthor #literaryfiction
I got to talk about The Pattern Shop on my first podcast!
This book is for readers who love:
🦋Coming of age stories
🌎Immersive settings and travelogues
🌱Finding fragile hope in a chaotic world full of possibility
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#indieauthor #ThePatternShop #selfpub #writersky
When you grow up to become a nurse but still remember the childish innocence of your past. 🦋
#WIPSnips #writersky #ThePatternShop #writingcommunity
When you hear a song for the first time and can't stop playing it and then look up the lyrics and it's basically the theme of your whole book. 😂
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#ThePatternShop #debutnovel #literaryfiction #writersky
When your dreams won't give up on you, despite the cost. 🦋
#WIPSnips #Writersky #ThePatternShop #writingcommunity
When you want to go home but don't know how. 🦋
#ThePatternShop #literaryfiction #debutnovel #comingsoon
What I think I look like, vs. what I actually look like after a day of writing. 🤣
Maybe I should just lean in?
#writerscommunity #literaryfiction #thepatternshop
Something I think isn't talked enough about but should be, is reverse culture shock. That feeling of coming home, only to discover it doesn't feel like home anymore. 🦋
Have you experienced this?
#ThePatternShop #debutnovel #literaryfiction
After sharing last week about how I’m navigating publishing a book that’s a blend of fiction/memoir with authenticity and care, I saw this email pop up in my inbox! 💗
#writingcommunity #writingworkshop #memoir #literaryfiction #thepatternshop
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Got some concepts back for the cover design of my book, The Pattern Shop!
What do you think? 😊🦋
#selfpublishing #writingcommunity #thepatternshop
Anyone else had a relationship like this? 🙄
"She sighed, squeezing his knee. He wasn’t ready. Maybe never would be. She was trying to build a home inside someone else’s bones. But she was strong enough now to stand on her own, to go without easy answers and predictable outcomes."
#ThePatternShop
This week, meet Eleanorah and her grandfather's pattern shop where the story about a young girl with big questions and big dreams longing to find her place in the world first begins...🦋
#selfpublishing #ThePatternShop #writingcommunity
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The first in a series all about self-publishing my novel, The Pattern Shop. Read for behind-the-scenes insights about the process and how it all began, twelve years ago. 🦋
#selfpublishing #writingcommunity #thepatternshop
thebarefootbeat.substack.com/p/rememberin...
I've been writing #ThePatternShop for over a decade now, infusing it with layers of meaning. For example, the chapter "Vole" means "fly" and also "steal" in French. If you rearrange the letters, it also spells LOVE. 💗🦋
Just a hint at the chapter's contents! 😊
#querying #literaryfiction
"She feared unfurled wings would forget how to climb, would be paralyzed by the ecstasy of the vista, would feel so close to the blinding sun they would forget they were not made of Light....
She was not yet sure she knew how to fly."
#querying #writingcommunity #litfiction #ThePatternShop
