Hello and welcome to my Author's website. I am LaMia Michele, a writer turned self-published author. To start, allow me to fully introduce myself and provide you with a little background about myself so that you and I can get better acquainted. I am from a small town, Chester Pennsylvania that is located right outside of the city of brotherly love, Philadelphia.
I have lived there all of my life until I finally made the decision to relocate to Atlanta, Ga.
As I sit here writing this blog post and traveling back into my memory bank, I have always been a lover of words, books and also writing, how ironic that being a writer or an author weren't on my list of life dreams and goals. Well fast forward with a little flashback moments in between, I came to a fascinating realization after being asked one simple yet deep thought provoking question.
The infamous question that helped me to discover part of my purpose was this,"when did I discover I was a writer?" As simple as this question may be it caused me to think deeper than the surface answer that I had become accustomed to given as my answer.
I have always been a writer! Oh my heavens! Once I discovered this new found revelation about myself I felt as if I had finally discovered my purpose in life and it was a beautiful revelation. However, I also realized that I had accumulated all this educational debt looking for something outside of me that I already possessed within me.
Like most young girls and even women, my writing journey started off by writing in my journal or diary. What began as a secret writing ritual from early childhood followed me well into my adult years and here we are now.
Looking through an unpacked box of books I came across 5 or more journals that I had been writing all my deepest thoughts, traumas, hurts and joys within. I removed those journals from the box and sat down on the edge of my bed and began to read each page.
As I read the words off of the pages I was filled with so many different emotions, yet I was also proud that I was able to recognize the changes and just how much I have survived life.
I was given a message 14 years or more ago while sitting in a church service that God wanted me to write a book. I attempted several times to write that book but all to no avail, each time I would read my words I would break my own heart and for that reason I refused to write that book.
However,that message that God said to write the book never went away, it followed me from Atlanta to Chester back to Atlanta. Fast forward to present time, the year 2020 -2021, I met a friend via social media who had written a few books, who continuously encouraged me to write and to publish a book, yet I still was a little reluctant to do that and spill all my beans.
It was not until I found that box and began to unpack the contents within that I found those old journals, those old scars that opened wounds that I then became ready to write a book, not the book but a book.
Nothing just happens, everything I have encountered thus far has been divine timing and intervention. Although I haven't written "the book", I did take a leap of faith and I wrote, edited and self-published my very first book, "She Writes from the Heart/ Transformation through Transparency", which I wrote in 30 days! This book, my very first of many serves as my introduction into the world of auhtorship and writing. However its intentional purpose is that it is the ending of certain life cycles that I have learned from and have no desire to continue to repeat. My book is available on Amazon for the beautiful price of only $9.99.
The journey into becoming a self published Indie author has been an adventure in itself and I will be writing about that in future blog posts.
Feel free to leave a comment, a question and your email address so you can stay in the know as I continue to bloom as a writer and build my table.
Thank you so kindly for reading this blog post, I am looking forward to hearing from you and networking with you.
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