The Journey to Make Me Free

My debut novel, Make Me Free, will be released in the first quarter of 2025. The sequel will also be published in the first half of this year. These two books will constitute the Losantiverse duology, a two-book contemporary fiction series. When that happens, I will officially be an independent literary fiction novelist.

The truth is that my big creative projects are born out of a reckoning.

The last creative project I decided to take on - prior to my foray into creative writing - was Potstirrer Podcast.

In 2012, I earned a PhD in political science, but promptly left academia for the private sector. Four years later, my sight began to disappear a little bit each week. Facing potential blindness, I realized that, despite being happily married and in my white-collar career, I was wrestling with ennui. Every day felt the same as the day before. As I watched former colleagues excel in academia and industry, while I felt like a hamster on a flywheel, I questioned my life choices.

On the brink of potential disability, I wondered if the time to make a difference had passed me by. If so, I had no one to blame but myself.

While undergoing medical examinations and procedures aimed at saving my sight, I feared that with my worsening symptoms, I would suffer the same fate as my father. In his later years, he fought similar health issues - albeit with a different cause - that robbed him of much of his eyesight.

While I could not control the changes that were happening to my eyes, I realized there were some aspects of my life within my control.