Celebrating the Completion of Rowena's Song

After nearly a decade, my debut is FINALLY finished and publishing on April 24, 2025!

Feb 28, 2025

The new title page of my upcoming novel *Rowena’s Song*.

Today’s post is going to be short but sweet. I’m having a hard time sitting down to type a full on article, because I’m dancing around the house feeling absolutely joyful.

I DID IT!!!!

Rowena’s Song is off to IngramSpark to have proof copies printed! Friends, this has been nine years in the making. After completely biffing my original debut of this story, in which I deleted all of the steamy scenes I wrote because I was too much of a chicken shit to be myself in front of my family, I DID IT!!!

I finished accepting all of the copy editor’s grammatical suggestions
I rewrote the paragraphs where I slightly deviated from Rowena’s internal arc
I learned how to use Atticus, a layout software for indie authors
I laid out my 450 page book
I finally sat down and wrote out a family tree. There are a lot of characters in my book, some of whom are historical figures
I verified the family relations of the historical persons to the best of my ability
I made a family tree in Canva and it is BEAUTIFUL
I purchased 10 ISBNs from Bowker
I danced around and generally felt like a bad-ass bitch, making my female-centric art despite everything currently happening in the US.

Please forgive me for not giving you any reviews or writing tips. I have been burning the candle from both ends. However, my goal was to bring this book into the world with the energy of last night’s Pisces new moon and I DID!!!

And now, here is my BEAUTIFUL Family Tree. It makes no sense to you right now, unless you read the original version of the book. But this is truly a romantasy, with lots of tribal conflict, blood-feud energy, and some good ole Norse and Germanic inspired monsters.

If this is your jam, make sure you’re subscribed to Ivy’s Author Newsletter so you can be the first to learn about where you can purchase Rowena’s Song, the launch party, and signing events.

Now I’m gonna dance into my weekend 💃🏾

~Ivy