After setting Protect These Streets out on the market, I continued my career as an international soccer player, moving 4,000 miles away from my home in Florida. I bought a beautifully crafted travel journal so I could write and on the first page, I penned down one of my favorite quotes by an author maybe a few of you have heard of.

“In order to write about life, first you must live it.“ – Ernest Hemmingway

So although I had my time to write, it was a constant reminder to put my pen down, or shut out my word program and go outside and live. Some of my best writing inspirations came from what I have experienced.

After experiencing, I sat down. I took the pen to paper. But nothing came.

It’s called writer’s block. It’s a thing. It has its own Wikipedia page and everything.

Then a little birdie gave me an idea. Which blossomed into a few scenes. Which flourished into a book. Which expanded into a three-to-four part series. My second book is the first installment. It is called From Beneath the Ashes.

You can read the back blurb after you buy the book ;) but I’ll write down a glimpse of the first few lines:

It was five years after the plague.

Five years after the disease meant for military warfare had leaked and turned millions upon billions of people into inklings of their former selves, they survived. Five years after the genocide explosion almost rid the earth of any signs of life left, those who craved the taste of human flesh and their victims were buried below a carpet of ash. Five years after the rest of the world found shelter in the underneath, she found herself in a room, in a room full of idiots.

You can read the back blurb, check out the amazing cover from my incredibly talented illustrator Max Wellsman, and order From Beneath the Ashes here.

Happy Reading everyone!