This is the space between the door and the story.
The Landing
Think of this like walking through a house
you've never been in before.
You might peek into one room and skip another.
That's okay.
Each space inside the Studio serves a different purpose.
There's no right order to explore.
Just follow what pulls you in.
Who I Am
I am an author who believes stories can change what we survive.
I’ve lived a few lives inside one body.
Some of them broke me open. Some of them put me back together.
Writing has always been the place where I tell the truth slowly, where I make sense of what I’ve lived, and where I leave the door open for others to do the same.
Second Story Studios grew out of that need.
It became a place where stories can be explored without pressure, where voices are welcomed as they are, and where becoming is just as important as being.
If you’re here, you’re already part of the conversation.
Books & Stories
Stories for people who like their fiction unsettling and their truth beautifully complicated.
These are the stories that stayed with me long enough to become books.
Some are dark. Some are tender. Some started as questions I couldn’t shake.
You’ll find thrillers, quiet truths, imagined worlds, and real ones.
Stories about memory, identity, survival, and the strange ways we find our way back to ourselves.
Take your time here.
Open what pulls at you.
The right story usually knows when you’re ready.
Available in print and digital formats
Grace Lives Here
Where Grace Meets Us Where We Are
This is where I sit down and talk things through.
About creativity and faith. About doubt. About grief, and what happens when life doesn’t turn out the way you planned.
Sometimes I’m working something out in real time. Sometimes I’m just telling the truth as gently as I can.
This space holds the conversations I didn’t know how to have anywhere else.
About becoming someone new. About living with loss. About the ways grace shows up right where we are, not after we’ve figured things out.
Some episodes are uncomfortable. All of them are honest.
If you’re looking for something to listen to while you fold laundry, drive, or just sit still, this room is for you.
Studio Journal
This is where I think out loud.
This is where I write things down as they’re happening.
This space holds reflections, notes, and essays written along the way.
It’s part notebook, part map, part record of what’s unfolding in my head.
Thoughts in progress.
Questions I’m still sitting with.
Pieces that don’t belong to a book, but didn’t want to stay quiet either.
If you like reading between the lines, this room might be for you.
Borrowed Light
Books, voices. and resources that taught me the craft, challenged my thinking and widened my perspective, and helped me stay the course when doubt reared its ugly head... again.
This room holds the influences that lingered.
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The books I dog-eared, the conversations that shifted something, the ideas that stayed long after the page was closed.
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The voices that shaped me as an author, met me in moments of doubt, and quietly reminded me that the spark was still there.
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It’s a quiet place to pause and listen, to see what happens when another voice enters the room and the work begins to open in a new direction.
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A place to wander when you’re stuck, when you're inspired, or simply curious about what might happen if you take that leap of faith and leave fear in the rearview mirror for good.
