The Journey to "Beauty from Ashes"

As some of you may know, I recently released my very own poetry book titled Beauty from Ashes (you can get it at beautyfromashesbook.blogspot.com :) ). If I wasn't excited before, the amount of love and support I have received since then has been amazing. But before I start getting emotional (yes, even "G's" get emotional sometimes too lol) allow me to take you on a brief journey along the road that led up to this point.