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The Roots

My love of writing really began with a love of stories. Even as a child, I consumed literature as though it was required to sustain my life. At just 3 years old, I memorized the words to Little Red Riding Hood.

Throughout high school and my younger years, writing was always that thing I wanted to do....eventually. But I lacked discipline and patience with myself. Now, a few years older and with a few more gray hairs, I've found both.

The Branches

If roots are the beginning, then branches tell the middle parts of the story. Like branches, writing has sprouted from every aspect of my life, whether I'm writing from a personal perspective of healing or as a professional speaking on topics in my field.

Pursuing a Ph.D while juggling a consulting career gave me the foundation of discipline and structure I needed to consider dabbling in fiction. Each publication acts like another limb of growth in my development as both a professional and an author.

Eventually, those limbs transformed into the foundation for my fiction works to start blooming, thorns and all. Being both darker in nature and an animal of a different breed, my fiction writing deserved recognition without external influence, and thus, the pen name Vera Thorne was born, honoring the legacy of creativity and inspiration that stemmed from my family while embracing the discipline forged through years of my professional career.

Under this name, I write to reveal the beauty that often hides in the shadows.

Every life tells a story. Mine just happens to bleed ink.

The Thorns

It's often the sharpest edges of life that remind us of the beauty that exists. Beauty can be born from pain and hardship. For me, those thorns represent the parts of life that can cut the deepest: loss, trauma, grief, and all the silent screams we carry beneath our skin.

As a storyteller with a background in psychology, I know from personal experience that the blooms that come from the wounds we carry can be a beautiful beacon of remembrance and relevance. My writing uses those moments to highlight the shadows, not so that they are a place to dwell but so that when you find yourself there, you know you aren't alone in the dark.

I use my background in psychology to help highlight how resilience and ruin can coexist. It's through the quiet intersections of the mind and heart that healing begins, and that is where my stories find their footing.

Thorns can be painful. But they are also protective. And they remind us that even in the darkness, growth is possible.