Hi! I'm Chloe and I am a writer. That sounds really strange to say... but I am. Well, I am now.

When I got the idea for my first book I wrote a manuscript in 13 days. It was pretty awful writing, but an amazingly powerful story. And gripping. How did I get the idea? Well, I was the victim of a brutal sexual assault.

In the thirteen days following my assault I wrote a novel, and I spent the following ninety days cleaning it up and making it a story people might actually want to read. I’ll say that again: I had my manuscript done in thirteen days. I was writing for 20-22 hours a day. Most writers tell me it’s an accomplishment to have a manuscript in ninety days. And I wasn’t a writer.

I didn’t intent to write a book. I wrote because I wanted to understand what happened, all of it. All that led to the trauma and how my at-the-time boyfriend reacted to it. It was catharsis. And when I was done, it was a manuscript. I broke it up into chapters, added a title and had some of my friends read the first third. They were all begging for more.

Even though it may sound like it I’m not trying to boast. My book is about real life issues with domestic violence and the serious effects of PTSD on such a trauma, and how it fuels the ignorant rape culture. I don’t mean ignorant as an insult. Before this assault I was ignorant, and I was fueling the same culture I’m fighting so hard against now. It just so happens that I had to sacrifice my soul to find a cause.

Since I started my book so much more has happened, enough to turn this into a trilogy. As I'm cleaning up and posting book one, I'm also outlining and writing book two. Unfortunately, I don't know how this trilogy is going to end. Mostly, because I haven't lived it yet.