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The Semi-final round of the Goodreads Choice Awards is here!! Thank you so much to everyone who voted in the last round. I couldn't have done it without you. Legit, it wouldn't have been possible. Follow the link in my bio to vote again! Every round and every vote counts!

❝ The truth is a tricky thing sometimes for humans. We don’t want to be burdened with the weight of it all. The sticky sting of it, it’s too much. I believed in forgiveness then, I had to, for my own heart. You can forgive someone for the crimes they have made against you for their benefit. It’s easy, and the reward is immediate, if not shallow. ⠀ Then there is forgiving someone for yourself. To be free of the weight it has placed on your bones, on your soul. This was a mixture of both. ❞ ⠀ ⠀ https://linktr.ee/j.r.rogue

Signed paperbacks are discounted through the end of this month!⠀ ⠀ www.jrrogue.shop⠀ ⠀ www.jrrogue.store ⠀ ⠀ or link in bio.

In the last year or so, I think I’ve become afraid of my own face. It’s a different level of depression. The kind that slips in, just under the radar. ⠀ It’s a different kind of self-loathing. ⠀ It’s tied to aging, society’s expectations, lost goals. ⠀ It’s a nameless beast who hides when I try to put up a fight. It’s often difficult to fight monsters we cannot see. ⠀ ⠀ I am going to try to be more present in my own life. More aware of slow fades. ⠀ ⠀ I am going to try to be more in-my-own-face.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟗 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄!⠀ ⠀ And I am SO NERVOUS! The truth about the Goodreads Choice Awards is that very few self-published books are in the opening round. (None are in the opening round for Poetry this year.) And it is only in the opening round that write-in votes are allowed. So I am relying on YOU, my loyal readers to get my newest poetry collection, I’m Not Your Paper Princess, into the semi-finals.⠀ ⠀ The Goodreads Choice Awards is the only major book award decided on by you, the reader. And for me, that means it’s the one that matters the most.⠀ ⠀ To vote, scroll to the bottom to where you can write in I’m Not You Paper Princess.⠀ ⠀ You can vote 𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐛𝐢𝐨, or 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: 𝐡𝐭𝐭𝐩://𝐛𝐢𝐭.𝐥𝐲/𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟗𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬

I've never really known much about tarot, but recently it has piqued my interest.⠀ ⠀ I think one of the greatest parts of being a writer is all of the different people we get to be. I’ve decided one of my characters in an upcoming book will own a tarot deck, so this is part of the reason for my new interest.⠀ ⠀ I have an obsessive personality. When I find something I am drawn to, I fall face-first down the rabbit hole. I've spent hours this past week looking at tarot decks and oracle decks. The Naked Heart Tarot Was the one that spoke to me the most. I love a clean look. White space and vibrant colors. I think that's probably obvious given the look of my poetry collections.⠀ ⠀ I'm starting myself out with one card a day, learning the deck. And there is SO MUCH TO LEARN.⠀ ⠀ Tomorrow starts NaNoWriMo. I have only won one year, and it birthed my bestselling and most loved book. I have doubts and fear regarding my ability to juggle life and writing 50k words in a month. So my question stemmed from that self-doubt. Here is the answer I received.⠀ ⠀ ❝ As I tune into my words, I hear my thoughts. As I start to connect to the thoughts, I can slowly start to see the patterns they create and where my self-doubt is rising from. As I come to realize they are only thoughts, and patterns of thoughts are not truths I can start to release their power. I choose to strengthen the thoughts that empower me and release the constraints from the ones that no longer serve me. ❞

Mornings are for sassy and reluctant princesses.⠀ ⠀ ❝ you built ⠀ a matchstick house at the back of my throat. ⠀ ⠀  I liked the taste of your anger. ❞⠀ ⠀ books2read.com/PaperPrincess/

❝ so how did I end up here? ⠀ lost & losing who I am. ⠀ ⠀ the mirror is a thief; ⠀ I am an accomplice ⠀ to these crimes. ❞⠀ ⠀ https://books2read.com/PAPERPRINCESS

I'm Not Your Paper Princess is LIVE!⠀ You can buy from all ebook retailers. ⠀ Paperback is live on Amazon AND signed copies are 15% off in my shop. Today is the last day to get them on sale!⠀ ⠀ All of my links can be found in my bio!

When I was a kid I was obsessed with butterflies. I had a book so I could learn every little detail. I chased them in our country fields.⠀ Taking care of this delicate creature for a few days brought me back to those simpler times. ⠀ Yesterday this beautiful monarch emerged from the pupa I had in my sunroom. I've tagged her and put her outside so she can make her way south, but she is still on my porch. I'm worried it's too chilly, too windy. I might bring her in and try again tomorrow. But what do I know? I'm just a dumb human and butterflies follow the same paths as their previous generations north and south, year after year. Finding their way to the same trees as the ones that came before them.⠀ ⠀ Sometimes being an empath is the absolute worst.⠀ I wish I could fly with her.

“...being with someone when you have these, these thoughts, it’s not fair. I just wanted to be free. I want to know everything about you. Not just the pretty things. The dark. The dirt. And I want you to see mine.” ⠀ ⠀ I couldn’t speak. I couldn’t move. I opened my eyes and stared at his own, they were trained on his hands. I willed him to look at me. ⠀ ⠀ He finally did, and he held my gaze. “What are you thinking?” I could barely think with his words and his hands on me. ⠀ ⠀ “I’m just trying to figure out if you’re real,” I managed. “Or if I just wrote you in my head, then placed you in my life to deal.”⠀ ⠀ https://buy.bookfunnel.com/mubfiobo79

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