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GRIZZLY BEAR #GIRLBOSS IS OFFICIALLY LOOSE IN THE WILD!

Breathes into paper bag

Friends, Romans, internet strangers—today is the day. After approximately 4,792 anxiety spirals, 267 "what if everyone hates it" moments, and one memorable 3am panic where I nearly deleted everything, my book baby bird has officially left the nest.

Is it self-published? Yes. Am I still counting it as my debut? ABSOLUTELY. Did I ugly cry when I held the proof copy? No comment.

Here's what you're getting with "Grizzly...

Plot twist: My debut isn't actually the first book I wrote.

Let me explain. Back in 2020, while everyone was perfecting their triple chocolate banana bread and making home brewed wild blueberry apple cider, I was writing erotica about a nun. (Stay with me here.) "Nun on the Run" started as a steamy short story, but I kept giggling so hard while writing it that it morphed into a full romcom by 2022. Because apparently, I can't take anything seriously, including my own smut.

Then "Cowboy Moon"...

Hello, fellow humans of the world! I'm Hazel K. Ford, and this is my very first blog post. (Please hold your applause until the end, or just send chocolate instead.)

I've been stringing words together since the tender age of five, when my literary masterpieces primarily featured talking cats and the occasional dinosaur. Fast forward a few cough decades, and here we are. I spent most of my writing life dabbling in sci-fi and mystery, creating worlds where the laws of physics were bendable and...