Hey There

I grew up in a fairly large city located near Buffalo, New York, United States. 2 loving parents and 2 younger brothers. I never really fit in anywhere, and it took me a long time to figure out why. There was always something that felt off about me, but I could just not understand what it was. So, I turned to fantasy to escape. Reading and watching tales and stories of people in mystical lands with unbelievable powers and amazing landscapes just sounded so much better than my life. I would dream and imagine myself as this other person and play out my life living as this character I made up. It took me a long time to understand what was really going on, and why I loved to fantasize about being someone else.

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When I got to college I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety. I had no idea what those terms meant or how it affected me. Wasn't this how everyone thought? As it turns out, most people aren't sad all the time, and that blew my mind. My whole life kinda got flipped upside down. It took me a long time to come to terms with this new me. Suddenly there was a reason why I didn't feel like I fit in or why I wasn't like everyone else. But yet, I would still have the fantasies from when I was a kid. The older I got the more I stopped imagining the fantasies and slowly started to bring them into the real world. I started writing. 

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It wasn't until I was 23 that I decided that I would tell my cousin about these fantasies on a road trip we had planned. I wanted to tell her everything, but I was so scared to say anything. Cause these were just fantasies. They weren't going to happen. But we got drunk, and I told her everything. She didn't judge or question it. Just acted like it was normal. When I got home, I did a lot of research. I learned about LGBT, and then I hated myself. Cause being gay was wrong. I wasn't gay. (Which is true. I am omnisexual not gay, but that's neither here nor there) The rabbit hole that followed brought me to a dark place. But the more I learned about the rest of the community and about the gender and sexuality spectrum I started to accept myself for the first time. If I had known about everything that is in my community, I would have been happy a lot longer ago.

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So now I want to help. I want to help those find themselves in my stories and understand that there is a large community that they are a part of. That there is nothing wrong, there is no damage, no scars, no demons trapped within. People are people. That is all there is to it. Gender and sexuality are part of being a human. No matter where on the spectrum people are, we are all humans. I hope that my books can help people see themselves in these stories. Cause I do, and I would love to share that feeling with others. We are not alone.