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This release day did not go as planned. It doesn’t matter how many times you hit publish, things can go wrong. ⠀ ⠀ On release day my paperback still wasn’t live and I had a million pressing responsibilities calling from my personal life. So promotion had to wait. And that was okay. ⠀ ⠀ Poetry is my heart. I write for myself. So on Thursday I relaxed. Which is huge for me. I don’t relax, I stress! It’s what I do. But I’m trying to be better about these things. I am trying to lessen some of the infinite pressure I place on myself. I’m a work in progress just like you. ⠀ ⠀ I hope you all have a great weekend. I hope you pick up my little book and give it a chance.

The paperback is live!! Finally! ⠀ ⠀ Check the link in my bio.

Confession: I don’t have great hair. I never have. It’s not full and it barely grows. My anxiety doesn’t help. If you’ve read KMLYMI then you know my stress has made me ruin it. ⠀ ⠀ My genes are strong in certain areas. I have decent skin and strong teeth. My metabolism has always been healthy, thought it’s slowing with age. ⠀ ⠀ I get compliments on my hair online and in person. And I have no qualms about saying it’s fake. I’ve been wearing fake hair for 15 years actually. It’s just another outfit, in a way. I think dressing up certain parts of ourselves is fun. ⠀ ⠀ Wear makeup. Don’t wear makeup. Wear fake hair. Wear your natural hair. Do whatever you want to make yourself feel pretty when you step outside. Costumes are fun and not just reserved for Halloween. It’s supposed to be fun if you want it to be. ⠀ Society places so much pressure on women to look a certain way and now we have to hear how we are “tricking” men with makeup and other things? Eff that. Do you.

Confession:⠀ ⠀ I have driving anxiety. I always have. & I’ve always been envious of those people who say they want to go for a drive to clear their head. ⠀ ⠀ Most teenagers are excited by the thought of driving, but I never was. I didn’t get my license until I was 17 & that was my choice. I just kept putting it off. ⠀ ⠀ If I get in the vehicle I want to ride shotgun. If I’m in the city I absolutely want someone else to drive. I wish I could blame this anxiety on the wrecks I’ve been in but the truth is this started long before I ever got behind the wheel. Perhaps just another symptom of my general anxiety. ⠀ ⠀ I have tense shoulders & severe tunnel vision when behind the wheel in unfamiliar territory. This anxiety has made traveling hard & the thought of living anywhere other than where I know every single road by heart difficult. ⠀ ⠀ What is one of your fears?⠀ ⠀ This photo is of one of the large bridges I always had to drive over on my way to Kentucky/Tennessee for work.

I decided on my pen name 6 years ago when I started writing my first novel. 2 years before I posted my writing on Instagram. I was writing a novel, Burning Muses, about a woman who was sexually abused as a child. Because I was sexually abused as a child. The truth had come to me in the summer of 2012. Writing was the only way I knew how to deal with it. But I didn’t want to use my real name. So I picked a name I connected to. A character who was brave and fragile, all at the same time. Rogue was always my favorite Marvel character. Thank you @therealstanlee, for giving so many diverse and beautiful characters to the world. ⠀ ⠀ #stanlee

I’ve been writing for over 20 years. ⠀ Poetry was my first love. ⠀ I was seduced by Emerson ⠀ and Poe at an early age. ⠀ I’ve inked their words on my skin. ⠀ ⠀ There are people inking my words on their skin now. ⠀ People message me and tell me the novel about my real life, KMLYMI, brought them to tears, broke them down. ⠀ ⠀ I have a love/hate relationship with this writing career right now. Pursuing this dream has damaged relationships, pulled too much to the surface. ⠀ ⠀ I may write a blog post about it later this month. Who would be up for reading it?

Have you picked your @bookofthemonth book yet? Here’s a little info on one of my choices. 🎉🎉 ⠀ Synopsis⠀ ⠀ Maurice Swift is handsome, charming, and hungry for success. The one thing he doesn't have is talent—but he's not about to let a detail like that stand in his way. After all, a would-be writer can find stories anywhere. They don't need to be his own.⠀ ⠀ Working as a waiter in a West Berlin hotel in 1988, Maurice engineers the perfect opportunity: a chance encounter with celebrated novelist Erich Ackermann. He quickly ingratiates himself with the powerful—but desperately lonely—older man, teasing out of Erich a terrible, long-held secret about his activities during the war. Perfect material for Maurice's first novel.⠀ ⠀ Once Maurice has had a taste of literary fame, he knows he can stop at nothing in pursuit of that high. Moving from the Amalfi Coast, where he matches wits with Gore Vidal, to Manhattan and London, Maurice hones his talent for deceit and manipulation, preying on the talented and vulnerable in his cold-blooded climb to the top. But the higher he climbs, the further he has to fall ...

Anxiety shows up when no invitation has been sent. You're in the middle of dinner and this bitch shows up. You throw the pasta out. You've never been a good cook. And you never will be. ⠀ ⠀ Anxiety shows up on your last break at work. You hide your face for the last two hours of the day. You're a shit employee, so what's the point? ⠀ ⠀ Anxiety holds your hand for three days after you've let your hair down, said the things you hold inside. ⠀ ⠀ Anxiety tells you you're a fool. You're an idiot for every letter. ⠀ ⠀ Anxiety shows up just before you close your eyes. Robs you of sweet sleep. ⠀ ⠀ Anxiety is a thief and a liar. You didn't want it to crawl inside your bones, but your consent doesn't mean shit. ⠀ ⠀ Anxiety is the only constant you know. ⠀ ⠀ Anxiety is a dripping faucet you cannot reach.⠀ ⠀ ⠀ How does anxiety make you feel?

Select paperbacks are 40% off in my shop and will never be available signed again. ⠀ ⠀ www.jrrogueshop.com

how can a man be so jealous of the sea? I don’t know what he sees in me if it’s you or the leaving the haunting we buried the kind that can dig itself up full lips-blank stares that’s what we are when pretend this isn’t going to end #jrrogue

"I write you as a forest fire⠀ you glitter in the distance⠀ the sirens are a symphony"⠀ ⠀ Rogue's work always hits me right in the feels. She's quite obviously an expert at cooking up delicious word porn. I have the greatest fun (because I read most poetry aloud to myself) with her use of rhyme and alliteration. ⠀ ⠀ READ HER WORK. ⠀ ⠀ — author, @ashlykimchi

What’s your favorite song to listen to after a breakup?⠀ ⠀ I favor anything by Gary Allan. So I had to mention him in Breakup Poems.

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