20/10/2026
It’s been a year to the day since I printed my first draft of “Awakening Dragons” 🐉 ha … this book journey has taken me a little longer than expected and apparently the writing is only about 50% of the way 😅
I now know why they say “hot off the press” as I clutched my warm manuscript wrapped in a brown paper bag close to my chest. Perhaps this is the closest feeling I’ll get to birthing a baby, as I feel like a proud mother having finally brought this life from my inner world to see the light of day.
I know there is an equally long path ahead to help this manuscript become whatever it wants to be. Whether I publish or self publish I don’t know just yet - it just feels good to be out of me - out from behind the screen into a 3D print copy.
I have enjoyed the process so far, taking me on an inner journey of remembrance, seeing layers upon layers that I hadn’t seen until now. The golden threads of my life that have woven a tapestry of adventure and discovery across many lands and cultures, through story and folklore, myth and legend, visions and dreams and personal experience.
I can’t wait to share it with you all one day, but for now, I’m just pausing to take in this proud moment…
And now as it rains outside, pot of tea ready, I am going to read and take it in as a reader, not a writer…
🐉 🫖