What was the thing that made you stop and go, do you know what? I'm going to give myself the time that I need to let my creative juices start flowing and put pen to paper.

Well, I'd love to take credit, but it wasn't me at all.

It was an amazing career coach.

We got outplacement support from work and I had the opportunity to meet with a career coach.

Her name's Dervla Baviera.

So we're still friends today.

And her business is Clearbird Coaching and she's fantastic.

sometimes you do forget that you know and then you're like right on to the next one but like for you to do that for the next one you're going through that whole process all over again take me back to getting your first publishing your first publishing deal and how that came about and that feeling of oh my god this is working out for me well I feel like you're the type of person that will say it's not working out until you've seen it on the shelf but yeah

Or series of

moments.

That was February 2024.

I got a late night call from my agent saying, check your email.

And I did not know what she was talking about because like it might be different for different people.

But I kind of I don't really ask for much like any news on that.

I know my TV agent will tell me if there's news.

many different factors because again people might imagine that they're like we're going to make your show and do you want to write the script but I'd imagine it's a bit more complicated than that