Goodreads asked Jessaca Willis:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Jessaca Willis I actually have an answer to this!

I spent much of my youth kind of being a f***-up. Toxic relationships, poor decision-making, drugs, booze, expulsion—I was on the fast-track to living a depressing and unfulfilling life full of strife.

Then one day, things just...changed.

Okay, okay. It wasn't just overnight. I took A LOT of effort on my part, and some cosmic intervention, but I went from being seconds away from dropping out of high school my junior year, to suddenly being enrolled in college classes and thriving!

I'm a happy and healthy mom of a beautiful, intellignet toddler, I have my Master's degree in Social Work now, and I'm living my dream of being a published author.

And here's the mystery: how the hell did I get here? 😂

One of the first books I was going to write was actually a science fiction "memoir" about the different lives I could've led had I just made slightly different decisions.

If I would've stayed involved in basketball, would I have ever played professionally?

If I had stayed involved in drugs and alcohol, would I have wound up homeless or incarcerated?

If I had pursued higher ed, would I have found true happiness (the answer to that mystery has already been answered of course, but at the time I was plotting this book out, it hadn't!)

That book became too difficult to write though, too personal, and I had to table it, but I believe many of my books try tackling these questions anyways, or at least the question of how adversity changes someone, and how we can either succumb or rise above it.

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