How Echo's Song started

I didn't plan Echo's Song.

That's the honest truth. There was no outline, no carefully constructed premise, no moment where I sat down and decided I was going to write a book. There was just one ordinary day — and then, suddenly, there wasn't.

My physical therapist was stretching me when the idea hit.

No warning. No build up. Just — there it was, fully formed and insistent, the kind of idea that arrives like it had always been waiting and is mildly annoyed it took you this long to find it.

It started with a plot twist. One I'm not going to tell you — not yet, not here, not until you've read the book and felt it land the way it's supposed to. But that twist is the reason this whole story exists. Everything else grew around it, the way a

world grows around a single point of truth.

The other thing my physical therapist gave me — without knowing it — was the scale sickness.

The illness at the heart of Echo's Song. The ticking clock. The reason Nova has three days. The thing that makes the whole story urgent in a way that surprised even me as I was writing it.

They were just doing their job. Stretching me, the way they always do. And somewhere in that room, in that ordinary moment, a book was born.

They have no idea they helped write it.

I am a discovery writer. That means no outline, no plan, no roadmap. I just follow the story wherever it goes and trust that it knows where it's heading even when I don't. Echo's Song was written exactly that way — one word at a time, every day, throughout the day.

I type with one finger.

I have cerebral palsy, and that's just how I write. One finger, every day, building a world that way. It takes longer than most people's process. It also means every single word in Echo's Song was chosen carefully, because it had to be.

I think that's why the book feels the way it does. Deliberate. Intentional. Like nothing is there by accident.

Because nothing is.

What I didn't expect — what I couldn't have planned for — was how much of myself ended up in the story.

Nova's fear of being overlooked. Her terror that the only thing meant for her was small and half-hidden in the shadows. Her love for her sister that she would never say out loud because it didn't need saying.

I didn't write those things consciously. They just appeared, the way the truest things always do — quietly, without announcing themselves, already there by the time you notice them.

Echo's Song exists because an idea found me during a PT session and refused to leave. It exists because I showed up every day and typed with one finger and followed the story wherever it went. It exists because sometimes the books that are meant to be written don't ask for your permission first.

They just start.

And you follow.

Echo's Song — The Dragon Curse Saga Book 1 — releases October 24th, 2026. Pre-order is available now on Amazon.