On Losing and Finding Yourself Again

It’s strange how easy it is to lose pieces of yourself without noticing.
Not all at once, not dramatically, but in small ways. In the quiet compromises, the things you stop doing, the versions of you that fade because life keeps asking you to be something else.

Maybe it happens after a loss. Maybe it happens slowly, after years of putting duty before desire, or comfort before curiosity. You wake up one day and realize you’ve been surviving, not living.

That’s something I think about a lot when I write—especially when I wrote Fabled, Book 1: Icebound.

The main character, Prince Destan, isn’t a grand hero charging into battle. He’s a boy trying to remember who he was before the world told him who to be. His journey isn’t just about fighting magic; it’s about fighting numbness. About choosing warmth, even when it hurts.

If you’ve ever felt like you’re rebuilding yourself from the fragments of who you used to be, Icebound might speak to you.

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