Hey friends and readers 💜

Big update from my creative corner of the universe! I just wrapped the first draft of the very first HARSH book, and I’m now deep in the editing stage. Writing a choose-your-own-adventure again was so much fun... it brought back all those childhood memories of flipping pages to survive one bad decision after another. It’s wild being the one writing the twists now instead of just reacting to them!

I’m brainstorming the next HARSH story. I’m torn between two themes:

• Social media recklessness (because, yes, there are real consequences when you post nonsense online)
• Or anti-bullying, especially when it comes to how rumors and pictures can destroy someone’s high school life.

Both are powerful, and both are painfully real. 

Meanwhile, I’ve also kicked off the outline for The Green Lotus, the next book in The Lotus Mark series. So far… it’s clicking beautifully. Gritty, emotional, and full of tension... just how I like it. 

Oh, and in real-world nurse life? I’m loving my new job as a nurse educator. Watching nervous students learn how to perform their first vital signs or give their first bed bath reminds me why I do what I do. It’s messy. It’s awkward. But it’s also incredibly human.

Thanks for walking with me through the fiction, the feels, and the fluorescent-lit hospital halls. More to come soon 💪💙

Deanna LaForce MSN, RN