Whimsical YA stories empowering you to overcome your everyday fears
Are you tired of trauma darkening whimsy?
As you curl up in blankets, blinking away the exhaustion of everyday routine, you crave an escape.
Your chosen book flickers with whimsy, sparking delight deep in your soul. Desperate for more, you tear through pages—
Just to plunge into a dump of the hero’s trauma.
Though you slog on, you shrink at each recollection of insurmountable grief. After all, family pictures, half-completed homework, and Cheez-Its clutter your desk. How can you relate to a traumatized hero who’s lost everything?
His ending victory cracks another piece of your soul. Getting out of bed to fight insecurity another day takes all your courage, yet evidently, you should be overcoming so much more.
Whimsy enhances the stories of tragic underdogs, but you thirst for hope for your own life.
Your everyday battles require courage;
thus, your story deserves whimsy.
Welcome. I’m Talia.
And I’ve battled the fears of everyday life, just like you.
Cross-country moves and isolation from friend groups led to my deep struggles with loneliness. Chronic perfectionism in my academics, hobbies, and career caused me to wonder if I’m only as valuable as the work I create.
Throughout my teenage years, I searched YA novels for a fantasy hero I could relate to. And when I only ever found impossible trauma, stories began to fuel my self-doubt. I hid my struggles, wondering if I missed some magical secret to life that everyone else had found—if my fight against insecurity wasn’t valid without trauma.
Now, I’m a student in the Author Conservatory, mentored by professional authors and editors so I can write whimsical stories that empower people like you to overcome your everyday fears.
I still battle each day to keep my insecurity at bay. However, now I infuse a spark of whimsy and hope into the victories of life, both big and small.
Your story matters. I want my novels to help you tell it.
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