It takes strength to walk away from someone you love. - Peace Adzo Medie

Please, put love aside and be practical. Love will not put food on the table; it won’t hold you at night.

Not everyone who smiles with you wishes you well.

The transition probably happened when I was working on my doctoral dissertation. Around that time, I started sending out short stories. Short stories were more manageable because, in some ways, submitting them was similar to submitting academic research articles. So I think it was easy for me to do. But I remember going online, because I didn't know much about publishing or people in publishing - I only knew one person who was a writer before I published my book. I went on Google and searched, ‘how do you publish a book?’ and the steps just seemed so overwhelming.